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Wilfred X. Johnson

1920–1972

United States

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Wilfred Xavier Johnson (1920 – January 31, 1972) was an American politician who in 1958 became the first African American elected to the Connecticut General Assembly. A Democrat, he represented Hartford's heavily African American North End in the state's House of Representatives from 1959 to 1967. He was also the first African American bank teller in Connecticut.

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