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.
4-C Didema Mullins was born 1828, and died in March 1902. She married Joshua Colley, son of Richard and Crissy (Counts) Colley. Joshua Colley served in Company E, 21st Virginia Cavalry during most of the Civil War. He was a farmer and lived on Grassy Creek, near the home of his father-in-law.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.