About Joseph Newman Clinton
Lived 1854 – 1927 (aged 72–73). Joseph Newman Clinton was an American politician.
Joseph Newman Clinton (November 19, 1854 – 1927) was a politician and public official in Florida. An African American, he served in the Florida House of Representatives from Alachua County from 1881 to 1883, was a member of the city council in Gainesville from 1883 to 1885, and was a federal official in Pensacola
He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of an African Methodist Episcopal Church bishop. He went to high school at the Institute for Colored Youth and graduated from Lincoln University in 1873. In 1913, Woodrow Wilson removed African Americans in the South from federal offices.
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American politician
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Joseph Newman Clinton was born on 19 November 1854 in Pittsburgh.
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Joseph Newman Clinton died in 1927.
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Joseph Newman Clinton was a politician.
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Joseph Newman Clinton was American.
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