About Samuel W. Fitzhugh
Born 1844. Samuel W. Fitzhugh was an American legislator, politician and teacher.
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.
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. He was one of the legislator signatories of a letter explaining their opposition to a convict labor bill.
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Who was Samuel W. Fitzhugh?
Mississippi state legislator
When was Samuel W. Fitzhugh born?
Samuel W. Fitzhugh was born in 1844 in Mississippi.
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Samuel W. Fitzhugh was a legislator, politician and teacher.
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Samuel W. Fitzhugh was American.
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