On November 8, he defeated Dudley once again, garnering more than 86 percent of the vote, in a special election to fill the seat for the remainder of the 41st Congress. 5 Joseph Rainey was sworn in on December 12, 1870, as the first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. One month later he was joined by the second black Member, Representative Jefferson Long of Georgia.
Brigadier General William H.L. Mullins is deputy director, Legislative Liaison, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. General Mullins was born in Independence, Mo., in 1935.
3-B John Mullins, born 1784, died at Clintwood, Virginia, September 19, 1859. He and his wife lie buried on a slope about three hundred yards west of the Courthouse. He was a farmer and stock raiser.His first home was on Toe River in Yancy County, North Carolina.he most numerous family in Dickenson County, Virginia, bears the name of Mullins. The names of 441 Mullins' appear on the 1930 poll tax list. There are many other Mullins in other counties of Southwestern Virginia, Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia.