the fourth district. He held this office until his death. Mullins' support of black suffrage and other initiatives of the Radical Republicans made him a target of the burgeoning Ku Klux Klan. While Mullins was campaigning for Congress in October 1870, a group of Klansmen attacked his farm, burning his barn, stables, and mills. In January 1871, a group of Klansmen attempted to break into the home of J.L. Roseborough in Shelbyville, presumably to attack Mullins, who was boarding there, but failed to gain entry. Mullins died of cholera in Shelbyville on June 26, 1873. He is interred in the Arnold Cemetery near Shelbyville. References External links 1807 births 1873 deaths People from Bedford County, Tennessee Tennessee Whigs Tennessee Know Nothings Tennessee Oppositionists Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee Radical Republicans Members of the Tennessee House of Representatives American slave owners Southern Unionists in the American Civil War Union Army soldiers People of Tennessee in the American Civil War Deaths from cholera