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Abraham Hugo Miller (March 13, 1851July 8, 1913) was a businessman, pastor and state legislator in Arkansas. He served in the
Arkansas House of Representatives The Arkansas State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House is composed of 100 members elected from an equal amount of constituencies across the ...
in 1874 and 1875. At the peak of his business operations, he was considered the wealthiest man in Arkansas. He was a pastor at
Centennial Baptist Church The Centennial Baptist Church is a historic church building at the corner of York and Columbia Streets in Helena, Arkansas. It is significant for its association with Elias Camp Morris (1855-1922), who was the pastor of the church from 1879 and ...
in
Helena, Arkansas Helena is the eastern portion of Helena–West Helena, Arkansas, a city in Phillips County, Arkansas. It was founded in 1833 by Nicholas Rightor and is named after the daughter of Sylvanus Phillips, an early settler of Phillips County and the n ...
. He and his wife were on the board of trustees at
Arkansas Baptist College Arkansas Baptist College (ABC) is a private Baptist-affiliated historically black college in Little Rock, Arkansas. Founded in 1884 as the Minister's Institute, ABC was initially funded by the Colored Baptists of the State of Arkansas. It is th ...
. He wrote an autobiography titled ''How I Succeeded in my Business''.


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African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) after passage of the Reconstruction Acts in 1867 and 1868 as well as in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, ...


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Members of the Arkansas House of Representatives 19th-century American legislators Baptist ministers from the United States 1851 births People from St. Francis County, Arkansas 1913 deaths People from Helena, Arkansas African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era African-American Baptist ministers 19th-century African-American politicians Arkansas Baptist College {{AfricanAmerican-stub