Reuben Kendrick was a constable and state representative in Mississippi. He was born into slavery in Louisiana. He was appointed constable in Amite County, Mississippi in 1869 by Governor Adelbert Ames.^[1] He was elected to a seat in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1871^[2] and served from 1872 to 1875.^[1] He represented Amite County.^[3] He and other Mississippi state legislators were photographed in 1874 by E. von Seutter.^[4]

In 1876 he wrote the governor about being denied his right to vote.^[5][6]

• Reconstruction era
• Mississippi Plan
• African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era

• Work, Monroe N. (January 1920). "Some Negro Members of Reconstruction Conventions and Legislatures and of Congress". The Journal of Negro History. V (1): 63–111. doi:10.2307/2713503. JSTOR 2713503. S2CID 149610698.

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