George Walter Wetmore
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George Walter Wetmore (December 10, 1848 - January 5, 1920) was a clerk, police officer, and postal carrier who served in the Florida House of Representatives in 1883 and 1885. He represented Duval County.[1] He married Bessie P. Alston, formerly of Cleveland.[1]
His post office was in Jacksonville.[2] He became a lawyer and was a leader against Jacksonville's ordinance segregating its streetcars.[3]
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References
- ^ a b Brown, Canter (December 4, 1998). "Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924". University of Alabama Press – via Google Books.
- ^ "General Acts and Resolutions Adopted by the Legislature of Florida". Office of the Floridian and Journal. December 4, 1883 – via Google Books.
- ^ Ortiz, Paul (October 3, 2006). "Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920". University of California Press – via Google Books.