In honor of Black History Month, below are four men who held office during Reconstruction. This information is excerpted from Florida’s Black Public Officials, 1867-1924 by Canter Brown (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998).
Henry W. Call
Born 1834, Florida. Mulatto. AME Minister. Alive in DeFuniak Springs 1910. Washington County voter registrar 1868; Walton County voter registrar 1868; Walton County justice of the peace 1873-1875; Walton County commissioner 1875-1877.
Joseph T. Daniels
Born 1825, Florida. Laborer. Alive in Walton County 1880. Walton County justice of the peace 1872-1873.
Willis Johnson
Born 1812, Georgia. Farmer. Alive in Walton County 1870. Walton County voter registrar 1867-1868.
Anderson A. Pittman
Born 1813, Georgia. Mulatto. Farmer. Walton County justice of the peace 1875-1879.