Either personally, or otherwise?
You may take as a given I’m aware of the Laurences and George, and George nephew the SC justice.
Anyone in this century?
Either personally, or otherwise?
You may take as a given I’m aware of the Laurences and George, and George nephew the SC justice.
Anyone in this century?
The only people I’ve ever met with that surname have all been black.
This one dude I knew, named uh-- Bill, or Harry maybe, um, Tom? Oh! It was George. Took me awhile to remember that one, it was a LONG while ago that I knew him.
I wonder why this trend. Someone had to be descended from Gee Dub, right?
Does it have to do with former slaves taking the name Washington as a surname?
Also, I tried to think but couldn’t. I thought of a fictional character (Little Washington in the book Prep)–also black.
I found one on Google:
She has three sisters, so this branch of the Washington family tree probably won’t be carrying on the name.
Several years ago, 60 Minutes did a feature on the Washingtons who would be the USA’s royal family had George accepted an invitation to be crowned king. None were direct descendants of the president – the “Father of our Country” had a stepson and stepdaughter, but no children of his own. Most, if not all, of the people interviewed were pretty apparently Caucasian.
This article purports to have identified the man who’d most likely be King of America had the monarchy option been selected. Paul Washington and son Bill look white to me.
He didn’t have any children.
Nope. Never met a single one.
I work with one. He’s one of our A/V geeks.
Same here. I have a had a few students surnamed Washington.
If you look in the 1920 census, and pick a state such as California, you get 147 people with the surname Washington.
78 were listed as Black, 42 listed as White, with the remaining number described as “M” which I believe stood for mulatto in the census that year.
If we look at Idaho for 1920, we see 12 people named Washington–6 listed as white, 3 as Black, and 3 as “M.”
Picking a Southern State(where you can appreciate the problems with sheer numbers), let’s take North Carolina which only had 309 people named Washington.
4-were Indians, 28 were mulattoes, and 27 Whites and the remaining were all described as Black.
My data doesn’t take into account the fact that many of these people were in the same family. It doesn’t indicate that there were that many families, but rather persons.
I’m sure I have, just none spring to mind. There is a Washington family from Pontotoc County, MS (close to where I was raised). Here is a site mentioning them and their Washington Ranch.
I went all through school with Charlie and his brother Andy was in the grade below us. We’re all in our mid forties now.
I can’t recall meeting anyone of that surname, white or otherwise.
But I looked up my state’s white pages. There are just 46 residences that include folks surnamed Washington. Do we suppose that most of them are white, given 97.5% of people in the state are, or assume that most of them make up part of the 1% that are black?
Might you have better luck finding white Washingtons in the UK, where George’s family was from?
Dennis Washington, millionaire industrialist from Montana. The University of Montana football station is named after him.
I never met somebody called Washington. You should find out if the polled people have met more than one family named Washington.
Well, you might get a pulse on the percentages by looking at the first names. Just sayin’. . .
I’m racking my brain, and I think this is the case for me, as well. Of course, I’m bad with names, but still, I honestly don’t think I’ve ever met someone with the surname Washington.
What a stupid OP. Bricker, you can do better.
FWIW, I worked for a while with a very very white guy named Dave Washington. He was quite the leftist, and a very nice guy, but his ethnicity was pure whitebread AFAIK.