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John Roy Lynch (September 10, 1847 – November 2, 1939) was an American writer, attorney, military officer, author, and Republican politician who served as Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives and represented Mississippi in the United States…
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John R. Scott Jr. was a pastor in the A. M. E. Church, served as president of Edward Waters College, held local political offices in Jacksonville, Florida, and served as a state representatives. His father John R. Scott Sr. was also a leader in the A.M.E.…
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Reverend John Robert Scott Sr. (1840-41 – February 18, 1929) was a religious and political leader in Florida as well as a college president. He was born into slavery in Virginia.
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John Randall (died May 8, 1869) was a state legislator who served in the Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era.
1827–1890
John Randolph Jr. (October 18, 1827 – November 22, 1890) was an American politician. Born enslaved near Washington, North Carolina, he was freed upon the arrival of federal troops in New Bern during the American Civil War.
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John Charles Robinson (November 26, 1903 – March 27, 1954) was an American aviator and activist who was hailed as the "Brown Condor" for his service in the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force against Fascist Italy. Robinson pushed for equal opportunities for…
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John Robinson (1822, or October 28, 1825, or 1826 – January 1908) an innkeeper and politician who represented Cumberland County, Virginia in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868 and later served in the Virginia Senate representing Cumberland and…
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John S. W. Eagles (circa 1843/1844 – July 17, 1901) was an American politician and soldier. Born in North Carolina, he served in the 37th United States Colored Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. Following the end of the war, Eagles moved to…
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John Scurlock, known as Little John Scurlock or L. J. Scurlock (c. 1842 – December 28, 1890), was a Methodist minister, editor and politician in Mississippi, United States. He was reported to be seven feet tall. According to a history written during the…
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John Sinclair Leary (August 17, 1845 – December 9, 1904) was an American lawyer, politician, federal official, and law school dean. He was of mixed ethnicity. He is described as one of the first black lawyers in North Carolina and was a member of the state…
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John Daniel Singleton (January 6, 1968 – April 28, 2019) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer. He made his feature film debut writing and directing Boyz n the Hood (1991), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director,…
1789–1860
John Stewart (1789 – 14 March 1860) was a British Conservative and Tory politician. He was one of the first mixed-race Member of Parliament (MP) of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
1929–2008
John H. Stroger Jr. (May 19, 1929 – January 18, 2008) was an American politician who served from 1994 until 2006 as the first African-American president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners (the primary executive officer of Cook County, Illinois). A…
1838–1925
John Sunday Jr. (March 20, 1838 - January 7, 1925) was a carpenter, merchant, mechanic, cotton inspector, and state legislator in Florida. He served with fellow African American Charles Rouse representing Escambia County, Florida in 1874.
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Rev. John Frederick Augustus Sykes Fayette (c. 1810 – February 27, 1876) was an American and Canadian college-educated Presbyterian minister. Fayette attended Western Reserve College, present day Case Western Reserve University, beginning in 1832 and…
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John T. Costin was a Republican Party organizer, a member of the Georgia Legislature, and a minister in Georgia, United States, during the Reconstruction Era (1863 or 1865 - 1877). Costin helped form the Republican Party of Georgia He met with U.S.…
1836–1902
John T. Gunnell (1836 – June 26, 1902) served in the Colorado House of Representatives from 1881 to 1883 during the Third General Assembly. He has the distinction of being the first African American to serve in the Colorado Legislature. He chaired the…
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John Telemachus Hilton (April 1801 – March 5, 1864) was an African-American abolitionist, writer, and businessman, who established barber, furniture dealer, and employment agency businesses. He was a Prince Hall Mason and established the Prince Hall…
?–1976
John T. Wright (c. 1926 – November 18, 1976) was an American Democratic Party politician and taxi company proprietor. In 1952, he became the first African-American councilmember in predominantly Republican Bergen County, when he was elected to serve on the…
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John David Beckett Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick (born 21 September 1952) is a member of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In 1996, at the age of 44, he became one of the youngest people in the upper house. Taylor is the third…
1928–2011
John Thomas Chambers Jr. (February 29, 1928 – February 25, 2011) was an American politician from Maryland. Chambers served on the Annapolis, Maryland City Council for fourteen years.
Born 1874
John V. Coleman (1874 - ?) was a coal miner and state legislator in West Virginia. He served in the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1920. He was one of four African Americans who were elected to represent Fayette County, West Virginia in the House of…
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John Vanderpool was an American barber, laborer, and state legislator in South Carolina. He represented Charleston County, South Carolina in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1872 to 1877. He was part of a group of people authorized by South…
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John William Boyd (1841, or ca. 1852 - March 10, 1932) was an African-American ex-slave who became a lawyer. He served as a magistrate in Tipton County, Tennessee and served two terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1881 to 1884.
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