George Washington Witherspoon
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George Washington Witherspoon
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George Washington Witherspoon was a shoemaker, A.M.E. minister, and state legislator in Florida. 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. He won the Republican Party nomination over Malachi Martin but lost the general election to a Democrat whose majority was attributed to fraud. He served as a cou
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Florida state legislator (1845–1892)
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2024-02-22T02:24:31Z
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