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American politician

Joseph Newman Clinton
Member of the Florida House of Representativesfrom the Alachua County district
In office1881–1883
Personal details
Born (1854-11-19)November 19, 1854Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died 1927(1927-00-00) (aged 72–73)
Political party Republican
Spouse Agnes Stewart ​(m. 1882)​
Education Institute for Colored Youth Lincoln University

Joseph Newman Clinton (November 19, 1854[1] – 1927) was a politician and public official in Florida. An African American, he served in the Florida House of Representatives from Alachua County from 1881 to 1883,[2] was a member of the city council in Gainesville from 1883 to 1885, and was a federal official in Pensacola[3] and Tampa.[4]

He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of an African Methodist Episcopal Church bishop.[3] He went to high school at the Institute for Colored Youth and graduated from Lincoln University in 1873.[3] He began his career as a teacher.[2] He married Agnes Stewart of Atlantic City in 1882.[3]

For 14 years he served as internal revenue collector in Tampa.[5] In 1913, Woodrow Wilson removed African Americans in the South from federal offices.[6]

  1. ^ "Tequesta". Tequesta (54–56): 13. 1994.
  2. ^ a b Work, Monroe N.; Staples, Thomas S.; Wallace, H. A.; Miller, Kelly; McKinlay, Whitefield; Lacy, Samuel E.; Smith, R. L.; McIlwaine, H. R. (January 1920). "Some Negro Members of Reconstruction Conventions and Legislatures and of Congress". The Journal of Negro History. 5 (1): 63–119. doi:10.2307/2713503. JSTOR 2713503. S2CID 149610698.
  3. ^ a b c d Richardson, Clement (25 November 2018). "The National Cyclopedia of the Colored Race". National Publishing Company, Incorporated – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Brown, Canter (25 November 1998). Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817309152 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Woodson, Carter Godwin; Logan, Rayford Whittingham (June 30, 1920). "The Journal of Negro History". Association for the Study of Negro Life and History – via page 70.
  6. ^ Brown, Canter (1998). Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817309152.