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Joseph Smothers was a Baptist minister and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Claiborne County in the
Joseph Smothers was a Baptist minister and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Claiborne County in the Mississippi House of Representatives
The Mississippi House of Representatives is the lower house of the Mississippi Legislature, the lawmaking body of the U.S. state of Mississippi. According to the state constitution of 1890, it is to comprise no more than 122 members elected fo ...
from 1872 to 1875.
He was born in Kentucky. He lived in Port Gibson, Mississippi
Port Gibson is a city in Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,567 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. Port Gibson is the county seat of Claiborne County, which is bordered on the west by the Mississippi Ri ...
.
See also
*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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People from Port Gibson, Mississippi Year of birth missing Year of death missing African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era African-American state legislators in Mississippi Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives Baptist ministers from the United States Baptists from Mississippi {{Mississippi-politician-stub