Sheppard Mullins

Sheppard Mullins was a state legislator in Texas. He was African American.
He was enslaved from birth in Lawrence County, Alabama in 1829. He labored as a blacksmith and was taken to Texas in 1854.
He and fellow African American Texas state legislators Giles Cotton and Dave Medlock were from Limestone [County, Texas|Limestone County] when black Texans were emancipated.
He was a delegate at the 1867 Texas Constitutional Convention.
He attended the "Morgan Hamilton" Republican Convention in Texas in 1869. He lived in Bosque at the time.
He served in the Texas [House of Representatives] from 1870-1871.