{{Short description|American politician (1855–1915)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{infobox officeholder |name=Samuel A. Witherspoon |image=Samuel Andrew Witherspoon (ca 1913).jpg |caption=Witherspoon {{circa|1913}} |state=Mississippi |district={{ushr|MS|5|5th}} |term_start=March 4, 1911 |term_end=November 24, 1915 |predecessor=Adam M. Byrd |successor=William W. Venable |birth_name=Samuel Andrew Witherspoon |birth_date={{birth date|1855|5|4}} |birth_place=near Columbus, Mississippi, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1915|11|24|1855|5|4}} |death_place=Meridian, Mississippi, U.S. |resting_place=Rose Hill Cemetery |party=Democratic |alma_mater=University of Mississippi |profession=Politician, lawyer }} <!-- This article was automatically created by User:polbot from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000662. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. -->'''Samuel Andrew Witherspoon''' (May 4, 1855 – November 24, 1915) was a U.S. representative from Mississippi.
==Biography== Born near Columbus, Mississippi, Witherspoon attended the public schools. In 1872 he moved with his mother to Oxford, Mississippi. He graduated from the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1876 with a degree in law. He became a professor at the University of Mississippi from 1876 to 1879. He was admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in Meridian, Mississippi, the same year.
Witherspoon was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, until his death in Meridian, Mississippi, November 24, 1915. He was interred in Rose Hill Cemetery.
==See also== *List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)
==References== {{CongBio|W000662}} *[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t13n27q4j;view=1up;seq=7 Samuel Andrew Witherspoon, late a representative from Mississippi, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1917]
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