Office: | Texas House of Representatives |
Term Start: | 1870 |
Term End: | 1871 |
Birth Date: | c. 1822 |
Death Place: | Marshall, Texas |
Party: | Republican |
Mitchell Kendall (–) was a blacksmith and state legislator in Texas for Harrison County, Texas. Kendall was born in Georgia as a slave in 1822[1] and was brought to Texas around 1850.[2] He served as a voter registrar in Harrison County and at the 1868 Texas Constitutional Convention he voted to separate Texas into three states. He was later elected as a Republican to the Texas House of Representatives for the Twelfth Legislature from 1870 to 1871.[3]
The 1880 federal census reported stated that Kendall lived with his wife, Adeline, and his five children.
Kendall was a member of the Ebenezer United Methodist Church in New Town neighborhood of Marshall, Texas.[4] He was buried at the Old Powder Mill Cemetery in Marshall.[1]