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Joseph H. Stuart

1854–1910

United States

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Joseph H. Stuart, also known as J. H. Stuart (1854–1910), from the British West Indies, settled in Colorado and in 1891 was the second black lawyer that practiced law. In 1895, he became the second African American legislator in the state's history, after Rep. John T. Gunnell.

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