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Texas state representative
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Male
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Birth:
1822(Georgia, USA)
Death:
1885
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Biography
Mitchell Kendall (c. 1822–c. 1885) was a blacksmith and state legislator in Texas for Harrison County, Texas. He was born in Georgia as a slave. He was brought to Texas about 1850. He served as a voter registrar in Harrison County and at the 1868 Texas Constitutional Convention where he voted to separate Texas into three states. He was elected as a Republican to the Texas House of Representatives for the Twelfth Legislature from 1870 to 1871. He had a wife Adeline and five children.
Kendall was a member of the Ebenezer United Methodist Church in New Town neighborhood of Marshall, Texas. He was buried at the Old Powder Mill Cemetery in Marshall.