Samuel Fitzhugh

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Samuel Fitzhugh
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Fitzhugh in 1874
Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
In office
1874–1876
Personal details
Born
Samuel W. Fitzhugh

c. 1844
Mississippi, U.S.
Political party Republican
SpouseDelia Anna
Children2
ProfessionPolitician, educator

Samuel W. Fitzhugh was an American politician. He was a state legislator representing Wilkinson County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1874 to 1876. [1]

The Vicksburg Daily Times referred to him as the "cider colored negro" and a "colleague of the tallow-faced Gubbs" in a blurb deriding African American Republicans. [2] He was one of the legislator signatories of a letter explaining their opposition to a convict labor bill. [3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Samuel W. Fitzhugh (Wilkinson County) · Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi · Mississippi State University Libraries". msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com.
  2. ↑ Times, Vicksburg Daily (February 5, 1868). "Vicksburg Daily Times clipping".
  3. ↑ Pilot, Weekly Mississippi (February 20, 1875). "Weekly Mississippi Pilot clipping".


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