David Abner

David Abner Sr. (c. 1826–1902) was an American politician who served in the Texas House of Representatives.

Born into slavery in Selma, Alabama, he served in the Fourteenth Texas Legislature for District 5 and sat on the Education Committee. He was a delegate to the 1875 Texas Constitutional Convention.

Early life At the age of seventeen, Abner in 1843 was taken to Upshur County in East Texas.

Political life In 1873, Abner was appointed to the executive committee of the first Colored Men's State Convention. Later, he was elected to the position of treasurer for Harrison County. In 1874, Abner was elected to the legislature for Harrison and Rusk counties and a councilman in the Texas House of Councils.

Halfway through his term in the state House, in August 1875, a convention was called to rewrite the 1869 Texas State Constitution. Abner was one of three delegates elected to the convention from the Texas State Senate district that comprised Harison and Rusk counties. He was the only Republican at the convention who voted for a clause in the state constitution that prohibited the state from spending money for the encouragement of immigration.

After his state legislative term, Abner was the vice president of the Republican State Convention in 1876.

Abner died in 1902 in Marshall, Texas, and is interred there at a family cemetery.