Robert Thompson (born c. 1830) was a state legislator in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1874 and 1875 from Lowndes County, Mississippi. He was born in South Carolina and worked as a laborer.Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner Louisiana State University Press 1996 page 212
He served on a committee with six others to investigate contested election cases.
He later moved to Noxubee County, Mississippi where he lived with his wife Eliza and children.
See also African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900
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