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Perry Howard
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Perry Wilbon Howard (c. 1835–1907) was an American blacksmith, and a state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Holmes County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1872 to 1875; and served on the county board of supervisors. He was born in c. 1835 into slavery in South Carolina, and was brought to Mississippi before the American Civil War.
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