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About Francis William Reitz
Francis William Reitz Jr. was a South African lawyer, politician, statesman, publicist, and poet who was a member of parliament of the Cape Colony, Chief Justice and fifth State President of the Orange Free State, State Secretary of the South African Republic at the time of the Second Boer War, and the first president of the Senate of the Union of South Africa.
Everything about Francis William Reitz →- Occupation
- poet, writer, judge, historian
- Position held
- State President of the Orange Free State
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Born
- October 5, 1844
- Died
- March 27, 1934