Samuel A. Witherspoon
Samuel A. Witherspoon | |
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![]() Witherspoon c. 1913 | |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi's 5th district | |
In office March 4, 1911 – November 24, 1915 | |
Preceded by | Adam M. Byrd |
Succeeded by | William W. Venable |
Personal details | |
Born | Samuel Andrew Witherspoon May 4, 1855 near Columbus, Mississippi, U.S. |
Died | November 24, 1915 Meridian, Mississippi, U.S. | (aged 60)
Resting place | Rose Hill Cemetery |
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater | University of Mississippi |
Profession | Politician, lawyer |
Samuel Andrew Witherspoon (May 4, 1855 – November 24, 1915) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Biography
[edit]Born near Columbus, Mississippi, Witherspoon attended the public schools. In 1872 he moved with his mother to Oxford, Mississippi. He graduated from the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1876 with a degree in law. He became a professor at the University of Mississippi from 1876 to 1879. He was admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in Meridian, Mississippi, the same year.
Witherspoon was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, until his death in Meridian, Mississippi, November 24, 1915. He was interred in Rose Hill Cemetery.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- United States Congress. "Samuel A. Witherspoon (id: W000662)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Samuel Andrew Witherspoon, late a representative from Mississippi, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1917