Matthew Ricketts

Biography

Matthew Oliver Ricketts (April 3, 1858 – January 3, 1917) was an American politician and physician. He was the first African-American member of the Nebraska Legislature, where he served two terms in the Nebraska House of Representatives (the lower house of what was then a bicameral legislature) from 1893 until 1897. He was also the first African American to graduate from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in Omaha.

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