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.
Mulligan (games), a second chance given to a player to perform a certain move or action; Mulligan, the incompetent commander of an American mortar section in the movie Kelly's Heroes; Other uses. Mister Mulligan, the nickname of aviator Ben Howard's Howard DGA-6 plane; Mulligan, a racehorse that competed in the 1849 Grand National Steeplechase