Sheppard Mullins

{{Short description|African-American legislator and delegate}}

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.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8LuCDJIxgUC&dq=%22sheppard.mullins%22+texas&pg=PA72|title=Blacks in East Texas History: Selections from the East Texas Historical Journal ; Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Archie P. McDonald ; Foreword by Cary D. Wintz ; with Contributions by Alwyn Barr ... [et Al.].|first1=Bruce A.|last1=Glasrud|first2=Archie P.|last2=McDonald|date=August 30, 2008|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|isbn=978-1-60344-041-7 |via=Google Books}}

He and fellow African American Texas state legislators Giles Cotton and Dave Medlock were from Limestone County when black Texans were emancipated.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dJVOIj_iXgMC&dq=%22sheppard.mullins%22+texas&pg=PA337|title=Why Stop?: A Guide to Texas Historical Roadside Markers|first1=Betty Dooley|last1=Awbrey|first2=Claude|last2=Dooley|date=October 25, 2005|publisher=Taylor Trade Publications|isbn=978-1-58979-482-5 |via=Google Books}}

He was a delegate at the 1867 Texas Constitutional Convention.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1GEh_J8rjLIC&dq=%22sheppard.mullins%22+texas&pg=PA10|title=Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas|first=Amilcar|last=Shabazz|date=November 16, 2005|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-7598-8 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZuLEEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22sheppard.mullins%22+texas&pg=PA505|title=Reconstruction in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography|first=David|last=Lincove|date=January 30, 2000|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA|isbn=978-0-313-06501-9 |via=Google Books}}

He attended the "Morgan Hamilton" Republican Convention in Texas in 1869. He lived in Bosque at the time.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LW5DAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22sheppard.mullins%22+texas&pg=PA117|title=Platforms of Political Parties in Texas|first=Ernest William|last=Winkler|date=August 30, 1916|publisher=The University|via=Google Books}}

He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1870-1871.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W-iKAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22sheppard.mullins%22+texas&pg=PA132|title=In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990|first=Quintard|last=Taylor|date=May 17, 1999|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-0-393-24636-0 |via=Google Books}}