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July 11, 1915
After a prolonged period of declining health, Mifflin Gibbs died at his home in Little Rock (Pulaski County). Gibbs was a businessman, a politician, and the first elected African-American municipal judge in the United States. After living in California and British Columbia, Gibbs moved to Little Rock in 1871, where he was active in the Republican party as well as in law, banking, and real estate.