George Willis Proctor (born c.1848) was an American state legislator in Florida. An African American, he represented Jefferson County, Florida for one term in the 1883 legislature,[1][2] while his brother John E. Proctor served as a state senator.[3][4][5]

References

  1. https://www.floridamemory.com/fmp/territorial-legislative/PeopleOfLawmaking.pdf
  2. Assembly Journal. Florida Legislature. 1883.
  3. "The Legistlature". The Weekly Floridian. January 2, 1883. p. 2. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
  4. "John Proctor, Slave Who Became Legislator, Dies Here at 100". Tallahassee Democrat. Tallahassee, Florida. December 17, 1944. p. 22. Retrieved February 1, 2019. Free access icon
  5. Warner, Lee H. (December 14, 2021). Free Men in an Age of Servitude: Three Generations of a Black Family. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 95, 138. ISBN 978-0-8131-9511-7.
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