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

Further reading

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

References

  1. 1 2 Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867 - 1924 by Canter Brown Jr. University of Alabama Pres (1998) page 141
  2. 1 2 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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