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Emanuel Fortune
1833–1897
United States
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Emanuel Fortune (January 3, 1833 – January 27, 1897) was an American shoemaker, farmer, and political leader. Emanuel was born to Dorah (Dora) Russ, the daughter of a mixed race enslaved woman and a Seminole Indian, and Thomas Fortune, an Irishman killed in a duel when Emmanuel was 6 months old. Emanuel represented Jackson County, Florida at the 1868 Florida Constitutional Convention and in the Florida House of Representatives before being forced to flee and re-establishing himself in Duval County, Florida, where he held several offices.
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