About James H. Washington
Lived 1850 – 1916 (aged 65–66). James H. Washington was a politician.
James H. Washington (May 1, 1850 – December 23, 1916) was a school principal and state legislator in Texas.
Washington was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He graduated from school at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (Oberlin Academy), and moved to Washington, D.C., with his family. He moved to Texas in the early 1870s, settling in Navasota where was the principal at a city school for African Americans.
He was a Republican who attended state party conventions in 1872, 1873, 1884, 1888, and 1890. He was part of the Colored Men's Convention of 1873. from the Eighth Ward, and was an inspector of customs. Washington died on December 23, 1916. He is buried in Galveston City Cemetery.
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