About George Washington Witherspoon
Lived 1845 – 1892 (aged 46–47). George Washington Witherspoon was an American politician.
George Washington Witherspoon (December 15, 1845 – January 2, 1892) was a shoemaker, A.M.E. minister, and state legislator in Florida.
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. He won the Republican Party nomination over Malachi Martin but lost the general election to a Democrat whose majority was attributed to fraud. He served as a councilman in Pensacola, Florida from 1885 to 1889.
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Florida state legislator (1845–1892)
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George Washington Witherspoon died in 1892.
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