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Edna Branch Jackson (born September 18, 1944) is an American politician from Georgia. Jackson is a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives for District 165. She was previously the Mayor of Savannah from 2012 to 2015, the first female…
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Edna Mae Robinson (September 4, 1915 – May 2, 2002) was an American dancer, actress, and activist. She was a dancer at the Cotton Club and toured Europe with Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. She later became a public figure when she married the boxer Sugar…
1925–2014
Edna Wilson-Mosley (May 31, 1925 – August 26, 2014) was a prominent politician, civil rights activist, and educator in Denver and Aurora, Colorado. Wilson-Mosley was a civil rights specialist for Colorado's Civil Rights Commission. She was the only Black…
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Edolphus "Ed" Towns Jr. (born July 21, 1934) is an American educator, military veteran, and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2013. A Democrat from New York, Towns was chairman of the House Oversight and…
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Édson Santos de Souza (born 21 July 1954) is a Brazilian sociologist and politician. He has been a city councilor in Rio de Janeiro since 2023, a post he previously occupied from 1989 to 2007.
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Edward Austin Johnson (November 23, 1860 – July 24, 1944) was an attorney who became the first African-American member of the New York state legislature when he was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1917.
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Edward Allen Fulton (c. 1833 - 1906) was an American newspaperman, abolitionist, postmaster, farmer, and politician. He represented Drew County, Arkansas in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1871.
1820–1896
Edward Anderson (February 1, 1820 – December 11, 1896) a state legislator in Texas during the Reconstruction era. In 1866 he was elected councilman in the Texas House of Councils. He later served in the Texas House of Representatives for District 14 in 1873.
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Edward William Brooke III (October 26, 1919 – January 3, 2015) was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1967 to 1979. He was the first African American elected to the United…
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Edward Charles Mickey (January 3, 1836 - ?) was an American Reconstruction era legislator in South Carolina. His occupation was listed as tailor and minister. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1868 until 1872.
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Edward D. Green (February 25, 1865 – August 23, 1936) was an American politician and businessman. He represented the 1st District, as a Republican in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1905 to 1907 and from 1911 to 1913. During his first term, he…
1900–1970
Edward Danner (February 14, 1900 – January 1, 1970) was a butcher and state legislator in Nebraska. A member of the Nebraska state legislature from 1963 until his death in 1970, he represented North Omaha in the state senate. The only African American…
1848–1927
Edward David Bland (October 1848 – February 13, 1927) was an American politician. A three-term member of the Virginia House of Delegates, Bland was known for helping to forge an alliance between African-American Republicans and the Readjuster Party.
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Edward Everett Brown (1858 – January 14, 1919) was an African-American lawyer, author, civil servant, and orator in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1899, he helped draft anti-lynching legislation, and advocated for civil rights. He was a Republican.
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Edward Garrison Walker (1830–1901), also Edwin Garrison Walker, was an artisan, lawyer, and political leader in Boston, a Massachusetts. He became an attorney in 1861 and was one of the first black men to pass the Massachusetts bar. In 1866 he and Charles…
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Edward H. Morris (May 30, 1858 – February 3, 1943) was an African-American lawyer and state legislator in Illinois.
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Edward Hill was an American politician and postmaster in Mississippi during the Reconstruction era. He was the first Black person to hold a federal office in the area he lived in, and the Davenport Morning Star newspaper called him a "leader of Republican…
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Edward I. Alexander Sr. (c. 1850-1911) was a grocer, state legislator, city councilman, and postmaster in Florida.
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Edward Israel Cain (1837 - January 13, 1892) served in the South Carolina House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era. He represented Orangeburg. Enslaved from birth he escaped during the American Civil War and served in the Union Army.
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Edward Jones (1807–1865) was an African-American missionary to the colony of Sierra Leone. Jones was a prominent missionary and figure in the colony of Sierra Leone; he was the first naturalized citizen of Sierra Leone (though he retained his American…
1940–2020
Edward Browning "E. B." McClain (April 29, 1940 – November 9, 2020) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of both the Alabama Senate (1995 through 2009) and the Alabama House of Representatives (1987 through 1994), before being…
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Edward Mitchell Bannister (November 2, 1828 – January 9, 1901) was a Canadian–American oil painter of the American Barbizon School. Born in colonial New Brunswick, he spent his adult life in New England in the United States. There, along with his wife…
Born 1853
Edward Odom (born 1853) was an American politician and barber. He was first elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1872. His 1874 election as a legislator from Barbour County, and that of fellow state representatives Adam Gachet and A. E.…
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Edward Petty was a state legislator in South Carolina. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1872 to 1874. He lived in Charleston County, South Carolina. He corresponded about ordinance. He was one of the incorporators of the Toglio…
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