Haskin Smith

Haskin S. Smith was a state legislator in Mississippi.

His marriage to a white woman (miscegnation) in 1874 was controversial.

[1][2][3][4][5] He opposed an 1875 proposal to have convicts work away from penitentiaries.

[6] He was reported to have worked at a hotel in Port Gibson, Mississippi as a waiter and shoe shiner when he married and departed the area with the owner's daughter within whose family he had served.

This article about a Mississippi politician is a stub.