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Egbert Sammis

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Egbert C. Sammis (1848 - ?) was a farmer and state senator in Florida. He also served as consul in Stuttgart.

John S. Sammis was his father. Two of his grandparents were Anna and Zephaniah Kingsley of the Kingsley Plantation.

He represented Duval County in the Florida Senate in 1885. He was listed a "mulatto".

Edmund G. Sammis (1836 - November 1892) served as a justice of the peace in Duval County.

References

  1. "African American Senators During Reconstruction" (PDF). flsenate.gov. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
  2. "The Southern Reporter". West Publishing Company. June 29, 1893. p. 536 – via Google Books.
  3. Horton, James Oliver; Horton, Lois E. (2004). Slavery and the Making of America. Oxford University Press. p. 220. ISBN 9780199845453 – via Google Books.
  4. "Ethnohistorical Study of the Kingsley Plantation Community" (PDF). nps.gov. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
  5. ^ Florida's Black Public Officials by Canter Brown Jr. page 122
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