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]
Florida's Second Generation of Black Leadership by Canter Brown Jr. ACR January - March 2003[2]
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^ abFlorida's Black Public Officials, 1867 - 1924 by Canter Brown Jr. University of Alabama Pres (1998) page 141
^ abDickerson, Dennis C. (December 1, 2010). African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN9781604734287 – via Google Books.
^Brown, Canter (January 23, 1998). Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924. University of Alabama Press. ISBN9780817309152 – via Google Books.
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