John E. Proctor
John Elijah Proctor was an American politician in the state of Florida. A former slave, he served in the Florida [House of Representatives] from 1873 to 1875, and 1879 to 1881, and in the Florida Senate from 1883 to 1885. Though he was born free, he was sold into slavery at a young age to family friends to pay off debts that his father had incurred purchasing an enslaved woman who became his wife.