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 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.