Samuel Fitzhugh

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]

Fitzhugh in 1874

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]

See also

References
  1. "Samuel W. Fitzhugh (Wilkinson County) · Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi · Mississippi State University Libraries". msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com.
  2. Times, Vicksburg Daily (February 5, 1868). "Vicksburg Daily Times clipping".
  3. Pilot, Weekly Mississippi (February 20, 1875). "Weekly Mississippi Pilot clipping".


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