Henry Lowndes Muldrow (8 February 1837-1 March 1905) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MS 1) from 4 March 1877 to 3 March 1885, succeeding Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II and preceding John Mills Allen.
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Henry Lowndes Muldrow was born in Lowndes County, Mississippi in 1837, and he became a lawyer in Starkville before serving in the Confederate 14th Mississippi Infantry Regiment and in the 11th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War. Muldrow became a district attorney after the war and served in the state house in 1875, in the US House of Representatives from 1877 to 1885, and as Assistant Secretary of the Interior from 1885 to 1889. At the same time, he was Grand Cyclops of the Oktibbeha County Klan den, and he advertised the Klan with his oratory and intimidated Black voters with threats of violence. He died in 1905.