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David Higgins (c. 1823 – ?) was an African American preacher and state legislator in Mississippi between 1870 and 1872. He was a Republican.

Biography

Higgins was born around 1823 in South Carolina and was African American. He worked as a preacher. In the 1880 census, he is recorded as being married to a woman named Maria and having sons.

He represented Oktibbeha County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1870 to 1872. He was elected alongside George H. Holland, both of them members of the Mississippi Republican Party. Higgins received 1,581 votes. In 1873, he represented Oktibbeha County at the state's Republican convention.

See also

• African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era

References

1. ^ Carroll, Thomas Battle (1931). Historical sketches of Oktibbeha County. Gulfport, MS: Dixie Press. p. 131.
2. Baldwin, DeeDee. "David Higgins (Oktibbeha County)". Against All Odds.
3. Work, Monroe N. (1920). "Some Negro Members of Reconstruction Conventions and Legislatures and of Congress". The Journal of Negro History. 5 (1): 63–119. doi:10.2307/2713503. ISSN 0022-2992. JSTOR 2713503. S2CID 149610698.
4. "Members elect to the Legislature". Weekly Mississippi Pilot. 8 January 1870. p. 1.
5. "State Legislature: Representatives". Weekly Mississippi Pilot. 8 January 1870. p. 2.
6. "State convention: The good work completed". Vicksburg Times. 2 September 1873. p. 2.

• 1823 births
• African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era
• African-American state legislators in Mississippi
• Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives
• 19th-century members of the Mississippi Legislature