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Samuel W. Fitzhugh was an American politician. He was a
state legislator A state legislature is a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. Two federations literally use the term "state legislature": * The legislative branches of each of the fifty state governments of the United St ...
representing
Wilkinson County, Mississippi Wilkinson County is a county located in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2020, its population was 8,587. Its county seat is Woodville. Bordered by the Mississippi River on the west, the county is named for James Wil ...
in the
Mississippi House of Representatives The Mississippi House of Representatives is the lower house of the Mississippi Legislature, the lawmaking body of the U.S. state of Mississippi. According to the state constitution of 1890, it is to comprise no more than 122 members elected for ...
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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African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900 More than 1,500 African-American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern sta ...


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Year of birth missing People from Wilkinson County, Mississippi African-American state legislators in Mississippi Republican Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era 19th-century members of the Mississippi Legislature Year of death missing {{Mississippi-politician-stub