Jesse Jackson Millsaps
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Jesse Jackson Millsaps (March 26, 1827 - January 9, 1900) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, a farmer, and a state legislator who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives representing
Van Buren County, Arkansas Van Buren County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,295. The county seat is Clinton. The county was formed on November 11, 1833, and named for Martin Van Buren, President of the Uni ...
in 1868 and 1885. Millsaps was a member of the 1868 Arkansas Constitutional Convention, where he was listed as a 41 year old farmer who had been in Arkansas for eight years. He was also a member of the 1868 General Assembly where he was a representative for the 4th district. In 1873 he was justice of the peace in Van Buren County. He and other 1885 House representatives and officers were included in a composite photograph, where according to the captioning he was 57 and had been in Arkansas for 24 years, originally from
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, was a Methodist, his post office was in Copeland, Arkansas, and he was a Republican.


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American justices of the peace Republican Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives People from North Carolina People from Van Buren County, Arkansas 1827 births 1900 deaths 19th-century American politicians Union Army soldiers People of Arkansas in the American Civil War Methodists from Arkansas {{Arkansas-politician-stub