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Isaac Lawrence Purcell

Born 1857

United States

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Isaac Lawrence Purcell (born July 17, 1857) was an African-American lawyer. Booker T. Washington noted he was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court and had cases before it. He worked in Jacksonville, Florida.

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