Samuel Fitzhugh | |
Office: | Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives |
Term Start: | 1874 |
Term End: | 1876 |
Birth Name: | Samuel W. Fitzhugh |
Birth Place: | Mississippi, U.S. |
Nationality: | American |
Party: | Republican |
Spouse: | Delia Anna |
Children: | 2 |
Profession: | Politician, educator |
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.[1]
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.[2] He was one of the legislator signatories of a letter explaining their opposition to a convict labor bill.[3]