Samuel Andrew Witherspoon

Samuel Andrew Witherspoon (* May 4, 1855 in Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi, † November 24, 1915 in Meridian, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1915 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Witherspoon attended the public schools of his home. In 1872 he moved with his mother to Oxford in Mississippi. There Samuel attended until 1876 the University of Mississippi, where he taught 1876-1879 itself. After studying law and its made ​​in 1879 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Meridian in Lauderdale County. He was a leading member of the American Bar Association. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1898 he was an opponent of the Spanish - American War.

In the congressional elections of 1910, Samuel Witherspoon was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Adam M. Byrd on March 4, 1911. After two re- elections he could remain until his death on 24 November 1915 at the Congress. His term would actually run until 3 March 1917. After the election due his mandate was awarded to William W. Venable. Witherspoon was buried in Meridian. It is noteworthy that he. Congress be content for the time in which no meetings took place and he worked as a private lawyer, the state budget refunded