Henry L. Muldrow | |
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First Assistant United States Secretary of the Interior | |
In office July 1, 1885 – April 1, 1889 | |
President | Grover Cleveland |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi's 1st district | |
In office March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1885 | |
Preceded by | Lucius Q. C. Lamar |
Succeeded by | John M. Allen |
Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives | |
In office 1875 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Henry Lowndes Muldrow February 8, 1837 Lowndes County, Mississippi, U.S. |
Died | March 1, 1905 Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, U.S. | (aged 68)
Cause of death | Heart failure |
Resting place | Odd Fellows Cemetery, Starkville, Mississippi, U.S. 33°27′45.0″N 88°48′24.3″W / 33.462500°N 88.806750°W |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse |
Eliza Dick Ervin (m. 1860) |
Alma mater | University of Mississippi (BA, LLB) |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Confederate States |
Branch | Army |
Years of service | 1861–1865 |
Rank | Lieutenant-Colonel |
Commands | 11th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (acting) (1865) |
Battles | |
Henry Lowndes Muldrow (February 8, 1837 – March 1, 1905) was an American politician who served as the First Assistant Secretary of the Interior in the first Cleveland administration. Prior to this he served as U.S. Representative from Mississippi's 1st congressional district, a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives and as an officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded a cavalry regiment in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. He was "Grand Cyclops" of the Oktibbeha County Ku Klux Klan den.