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Selected Profiles of Massachusetts Judges and Lawyers

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Attorney
Macon B. Allen

The first African American admitted to the Massachusetts bar (1845) and the first African American admitted to practice law in the United States, Allen became a justice of the peace in Massachusetts until after the Civil War. In 1873, he moved to South Carolina and was elected a judge.
Courtesy of F. Mark Terison

 


 

 

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