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William Henry Harrison Hart

1857–1934

United States

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William Henry Harrison Hart (October 30, 1857 – January 6, 1934) was an African American attorney and professor of criminal law at Howard University from 1887 to 1922. He won an important legal case, Hart v. State, 100 MD 595 (1905).

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