Portrait from the Louisville Courier Journal, September 19, 1903.
Another obscure Kentuckian discovered recently, Mankin Charles Champion was a lifelong resident of Anderson County who was elected to one term in the Kentucky General Assembly in the early 20th century. The son of Davis and Mary Rudd (Sweeney) Champion, Mankin C. Champion was born in Anderson County on May 27, 1853. No information could be located as to Champion's formative years or education, and he would marry sometime in the early 1870s to Sarah Frances Mullins (1855-1891). The couple later became parents to seven children, Susan Mary (1876-1949), John F. (1877-1878) Thomas Davis (1879-1968), Mattie, Charles Earldy (1883-1978), Elizabeth (1884-1954) and Etta Bell.
Announcing his candidacy for the Kentucky House of Representatives in mid-1903, Mankin Champion proved successful at the polls that November, garnering 1,402 votes. During the 1904-06 session, he held seats on the following committees: Claims, Immigration and Labor, Legislative and Congressional Redistricting, and Public Morals. Little information exists on Champion's life following his term, excepting notices of his service as a member of the Kentucky State Board of Equalization from 1909 to at least 1914, and as Anderson county road engineer from 1912-13.
Widowed in 1891, Mankin C. Champion died in Kentucky on January 9, 1921, aged 67. He was later interred at the same cemetery as his wife, the Sweeney Cemetery in Anderson County.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
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