Mifflin Wistar Gibbs

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Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (1823-1915) was the Pulaski County Attorney in the 1870s and the first elected black municipal judge in the United States.

Personal life

Gibbs was born in Philadelphia on April 17, 1823, to Jonathan and Maria Gibbs.

References

  • The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, vol. 10 (J.T. White, 1900), 114.

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