Henry L. Muldrow

Henry L. Muldrow
First Assistant United States Secretary of the Interior
In office
July 1, 1885 – April 1, 1889
PresidentGrover Cleveland
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Mississippi's 1st district
In office
March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1885
Preceded byLucius Q. C. Lamar
Succeeded byJohn M. Allen
Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
In office
1875
Personal details
Born
Henry Lowndes Muldrow

(1837-02-08)February 8, 1837
Lowndes County, Mississippi, U.S.
DiedMarch 1, 1905(1905-03-01) (aged 68)
Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, U.S.
Cause of deathHeart failure
Resting placeOdd Fellows Cemetery,
Starkville, Mississippi, U.S.
33°27′45.0″N 88°48′24.3″W / 33.462500°N 88.806750°W / 33.462500; -88.806750
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Eliza Dick Ervin
(m. 1860)
Alma materUniversity of Mississippi (BA, LLB)
Military service
AllegianceConfederate States
BranchArmy
Years of service1861–1865
RankLieutenant-Colonel
Commands11th 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.