Mitchell Kendall
Mitchell Kendall (–) was a blacksmith and state legislator in Texas for Harrison County, Texas. He was born in Georgia as a slave. He was brought to Texas about 1850. He served as a voter registrar in Harrison County and at the 1868 Texas Constitutional Convention where he voted to separate Texas into three states. He was elected as a Republican to the Texas House of Representatives for the Twelfth Legislature from 1870 to 1871. He had a wife Adeline and five children.

Kendall was a member of the Ebenezer United Methodist Church in New Town neighborhood of Marshall, Texas. He was buried at the Old Powder Mill Cemetery in Marshall.

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19th-century American politicians
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1885 deaths
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African-American state legislators in Texas
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Republican Party members of the Texas House of Representatives