George Washington Witherspoon

Florida state legislator (1845–1892)

George Washington Witherspoon

Member of the Florida House of Representatives
from the Jefferson County district
In office
1875–1877
1877–1879
1879–1881
1883–1885
Personal details
Born| (1845-12-15)December 15, 1845
Sumter County, South Carolina, U.S.
Died| January 2, 1892(1892-01-02) (aged 46)
Political party| Republican

George Washington Witherspoon (December 15, 1845 – January 2, 1892) was a shoemaker, A.M.E. minister, and state legislator in Florida.[1]

Witherspoon was born in the South Carolina's Sumter District. He represented Jefferson County in the Florida House of Representatives in 1875, 1877, 1879, and 1883. He was a Republican Party candidate for a seat in the U.S. Congress in 1880.[2] He won the Republican Party nomination over Malachi Martin but lost the general election to a Democrat whose majority was attributed to fraud.[3] He served as a councilman in Pensacola, Florida from 1885 to 1889.[1]

## See also

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* African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era

## Further reading

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* Florida's Second Generation of Black Leadership by Canter Brown Jr. ACR January - March 2003[2]

## References

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1. ^ a b Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867 - 1924 by Canter Brown Jr. University of Alabama Pres (1998) page 141
2. ^ a b Dickerson, Dennis C. (December 1, 2010). African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781604734287 - via Google Books.
3. ^ Brown, Canter (January 23, 1998). Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817309152 - via Google Books.

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