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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 for ...
from 1872 to 1875.
He was born in Kentucky. He lived in Port Gibson, Mississippi.
See also
*African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900
More than 1,500 African-American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern sta ...
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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 19th-century members of the Mississippi Legislature {{Mississippi-politician-stub