Henry P. Scott was a grocer, farmer, sheriff, tax collector, and state legislator in Mississippi.
He was born in Mississippi and enslaved at birth. He was a delegate to the 1865 Mississippi black convention at Vicksburg. He was elected to represent Issaquena County in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1877.Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner Louisiana State University Press 1996 page 190
Records vary on his birth year.
See also African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900
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