Sheppard Mullens
Full Name: Sheppard "Shep" Mullens
Other surnames:
Mullins
Date of birth: 1829
Date of death: August 7, 1871
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Terms of Service top
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Feb 8, 1870 - Aug 6, 1871
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12th
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Radical Republican
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Waco / McLennan
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Falls, Limestone, McLennan
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12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Qualified and took the oath of office on 2/8/1870.
House Journal.
(2)
Mullens died 8/6/1871.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
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Party affiliation, Radical.
Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas.
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Radical Republican Association, established 6/4/1870, p. 26.
Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: Black Leadership in Texas, 1868-1898, 2016.
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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Selected Newspaper articles
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12th Adjourned Legislature - Memorial resolution, p. 11. Death date 8/6/1871.
House Journal.
S. Mullins.
House Journal.
79th Legislature, R.S., HR 589, paying tribute to African American legislators and constitutional convention delegates of 1868-1900.
Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
85th Legislature, R.S., HR 452, celebrating Black History Month and honoring the leadership and vision of African American lawmakers.
Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
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| Biographical Sketches |
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Biographical information in Alwyn Barr, "Black Legislators of Reconstruction Texas," Volume 32, Number 4, December 1986, pp. 340-352.
Civil War History.
Biographical sketch, Sheppard (Shepherd, Shepart, Shepard) Mullens (Mullins). Born Lawrence County, Alabama, ca. 1828 or 1829; died Waco, Texas, August 6 or 7, 1871.
Forever Free: Nineteenth Century African-American Legislators and Constitutional Convention Delegates of Texas, 2002.
MULLENS, SHEPHERD (ca. 1828-1871). Republican.
Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch, pp. 3-4. Included in list of eleven African-American delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1868-1869, Appendix A. Birth year 1829, death year 1871, Appendix D.
Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: Black Leadership in Texas, 1868-1898, 2016.
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Shepart Mullins formerly interred in the First Street Cemetery, Waco, TX, "Over their dead bodies," 1/29/2009,
Austin Chronicle.
Biographical information, pp. 56-57.
Black Leaders: Texans for Their Times, 1981.
Sheppard Mullens.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
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