Samuel Fitzhugh

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{infobox officeholder

|name=Samuel Fitzhugh

|image=Samuel W. Fitzhugh.png

|caption=Fitzhugh in 1874

|office=Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives

|term_start=1874

|term_end=1876

|birth_name=Samuel W. Fitzhugh

|birth_date={{circa|1844}}

|birth_place=Mississippi, U.S.

|nationality=American

|party=Republican

|spouse=Delia Anna

|children=2

|profession=Politician, educator

}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/samuel-w--fitzhugh--wilkinson-|title=Samuel W. Fitzhugh (Wilkinson County) · Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi · Mississippi State University Libraries|website=msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/item/399|title=Vicksburg Daily Times clipping|first=Vicksburg Daily|last=Times|date=February 5, 1868}} He was one of the legislator signatories of a letter explaining their opposition to a convict labor bill.{{Cite web|url=http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators/item/381|title=Weekly Mississippi Pilot clipping|first=Weekly Mississippi|last=Pilot|date=February 20, 1875}}