Biography · Politics & Public Life
Henry P. Scott
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United States
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Henry P. Scott was a grocer, farmer, sheriff, tax collector, and state legislator in Mississippi. He was born in Mississippi and enslaved at birth. He was a delegate to the 1865 Mississippi black convention at Vicksburg. He was elected to represent Issaquena County in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1877. Records vary on his birth year.
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