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Ruth M. Batson (1921-2003) —
of Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August 3,
1921.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1964,
1972.
Female.
African ancestry. Member, NAACP.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
28, 2003 (age 82 years, 86
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Paul B. Boutelle (b. 1934) —
also known as Paul Boutelle; Kwame Montsho Ajamu
Somburu —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Newark, Essex
County, N.J.; Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., October
13, 1934.
Freedom Now candidate for New York
state senate, 1964; Socialist Workers candidate for borough
president of Manhattan, New York, 1965; Socialist Workers
candidate for New York
state attorney general, 1966; Socialist Workers candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1968; Socialist Workers candidate
for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1969; Socialist Workers candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 18th District, 1970.
African ancestry.
Still living as of 2008.
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Edward William Brooke III (b. 1919) —
also known as Edward W. Brooke —
of Newton Center, Newton, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Washington,
D.C., October
26, 1919.
Son of Edward W. Brooke and Helen (Seldon) Brooke.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
candidate for secretary of
state of Massachusetts, 1960; Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1963-67; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1967-79; defeated, 1978.
Episcopalian.
African ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Amvets; Alpha
Phi Alpha.
First
black U.S. Senator in the 20th century; recipient of the Spingarn
Medal in 1967.
Still living as of 2009.
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Tunis George Campbell (1812-1891) —
also known as Tunis G. Campbell —
of McIntosh
County, Ga.
Born in Middlebrook (unknown
county), N.J., April 1,
1812.
Minister;
abolitionist; delegate to
Georgia state constitutional convention, 1867; member of Georgia
state senate, 1868, 1869-72; expelled 1868; defeated, 1872; expelled
from the Georgia State Senate in 1868 based on the claim that only whites
could serve; charged
with falsely
imprisoning white men as Justice of of the Peace, and served a
year of hard
labor in Georgia's brutal leased labor system.
Methodist.
African ancestry.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
4, 1891 (age 79 years, 247
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Malcolm Gray Dade (1903-1991) —
also known as Malcolm G. Dade —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., February
27, 1903.
Son of Isiah C. Dade and Margaret (Warfield) Dade.
Democrat. Ordained
minister; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention from Wayne County 4th
District, 1961-62.
Episcopalian.
African ancestry. Member, NAACP; Alpha
Phi Alpha; Freemasons.
Died in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., January
27, 1991 (age 87 years, 334
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Isiah C. Dade and Margaret (Warfield) Dade; married to Bonnie Jean
Denham; father of Malcolm
G. Dade, Jr.. |
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Archibald Henry Grimké (b. 1849) —
also known as Archibald H. Grimké —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., August
17, 1849.
Son of Henry Grimké and Nancy (Weston) Grimké.
Newspaper
editor; U.S. Consul in Santo Domingo, 1894-98.
African ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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Sufi Abdul Hamid (1903-1938) —
also known as Abdul Hamid; Eugene Brown; "The
Black Hitler" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., January
6, 1903.
Americo-Spanish candidate for New York
state assembly from New York County 17th District, 1933.
Muslim.
African ancestry.
Died July 30,
1938 (age 35 years, 205
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (1928-1998) —
also known as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Trenton, Mercer
County, N.J., February
25, 1928.
Member, Federal Trade
Commission, 1962-64; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1964-77;
Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1977-93.
African ancestry.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1995; received the Spingarn
Medal in 1996.
Died, following a series of strokes,
in a hospital
at Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
14, 1998 (age 70 years, 292
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Ellen M. Jackson (b. 1935) —
of Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
29, 1935.
Daughter of David Swepson and Marguerite (Booker) Swepson.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1968
(alternate), 1972.
Female.
African
Methodist Episcopal. African ancestry. Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
Still living as of 1973.
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Relatives:
Married to Hugh L. Jackson. |
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George H. Jackson (b. 1863) —
of Connecticut.
Born in Natick, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
28, 1863.
Medical
missionary;
U.S. Consul in Cognac, 1897-98, 1908; La Rochelle, 1898-1908.
African ancestry.
Burial
location unknown.
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Leo Edwin Jackson (1925-2009) —
also known as Leo E. Jackson —
of New London, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., December
20, 1925.
Son of Andrew J. Jackson and Ethel L. (Williams) Jackson.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; mayor
of New London, Conn., 1979-80.
African ancestry. Member, Elks.
Died in New London, New London
County, Conn., May 24,
2009 (age 83 years, 155
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, New London, Conn.
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Clinton Everett Knox (1908-1980) —
also known as Clinton E. Knox —
of New York.
Born in New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., May 5,
1908.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Dahomey, 1964; Haiti, 1969-73.
African ancestry.
Died in 1980
(age about
72 years).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Henry Lewis (1868-1949) —
also known as William H. Lewis; Bill Lewis —
of Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Dedham, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Berkley, Norfolk County (now part of Norfolk),
Va., November
28, 1868.
Son of Ashley Lewis and Josephine (Baker) Lewis.
Republican. As a student at Harvard, was the first
black All-American football player (1892-93); lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1902.
Baptist;
later Catholic.
African ancestry.
Died, of heart
failure, in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
1, 1949 (age 80 years, 34
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Sharon McPhail (born c.1950) —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., about 1950.
Lawyer;
candidate for mayor of
Detroit, Mich., 1993, 2005 (primary), 2009 (primary).
Female.
African ancestry. Member, National
Bar Association; NAACP.
Still living as of 2009.
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Deval Patrick —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Son of Laurdine Patrick and Emily (Wintersmith) Patrick.
Democrat. Governor of
Massachusetts, 2007-; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Massachusetts, 2008
(member, Platform
Committee; speaker).
African ancestry.
Still living as of 2010.
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Edward R. Redd —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1988.
African ancestry.
Still living as of 1988.
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Jack E. Robinson III —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Republican. Airline
executive; founder, Oceanic Digital Communications (provider of cell
phone service in the Caribbean); Republican candidate for U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 2000, 2009 (primary); candidate for
secretary
of state of Massachusetts, 2002; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 2006.
African ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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George Lewis Ruffin (1834-1886) —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Richmond,
Va., December
16, 1834.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1869-71; Labor Reform candidate
for Massachusetts
state attorney general, 1871; municipal judge in Massachusetts,
1883.
African ancestry.
First
black graduate of Harvard Law School, 1869.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
19, 1886 (age 51 years, 338
days).
Interment at Mt.
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Silas F. Taylor —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Danville,
Va.
Democrat. Druggist;
member of Massachusetts
Democratic State Committee, 1928-48; Presidential Elector for
Massachusetts, 1940,
1944,
1948;
defeated, 1956;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1944,
1948,
1952,
1956.
Baptist.
African ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha; Elks; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Burial
location unknown.
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Michael Wayne Walker —
also known as Michael Walker —
of Brockton, Plymouth
County, Mass.
Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1988,
1988.
African ancestry.
Still living as of 1988.
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Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. (1899-1990) —
also known as Clifton R. Wharton —
of Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., May 11,
1899.
Lawyer;
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Monrovia, 1927-29; U.S. Consul in Las Palmas, 1932-38; Ponta Delgada, 1945-47; U.S. Minister to Romania, 1958-60; U.S. Ambassador to Norway, 1961-64.
African ancestry.
Died in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., April 25,
1990 (age 90 years, 349
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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