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Edward G. Walker
1830–1901
United States
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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 Lewis Mitchell were the first two African Americans elected to the Massachusetts state legislature.
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