Ferdinand Havis (November 15, 1846 – August 25, 1918) was an American state legislator, businessman, government official, and state militia member in

Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...

. Havis was born into slavery, the son of his enslaver and enslaved mother. He was a Republican. He owned a barbershop, about 2,000 acres of land, and his home. He is buried at Bellwood Cemetery in

Pine Bluff, Arkansas Pine Bluff, officially the City of Pine Bluff, is the List of municipalities in Arkansas, tenth-most populous city in the U.S. state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County, Arkansas, Jefferson County. The population of the city wa ...

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