Samuel Fitzhugh

Biography

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. 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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