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John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 – November 15, 1897) was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician. He was the founding dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department.
John Adams Hyman – North Carolina 1875–1877 (also North Carolina Senate and North Carolina Constitutional Convention) [2] John Mercer Langston – Virginia 1890–1891 (also U.S. Minister to Haiti) [2] Jefferson F. Long – Georgia 1871 [2] John R. Lynch – Mississippi 1873–1877, 1882–1883 (also speaker of the Mississippi House) [2]
Charles and his brother John Mercer Langston were both Oberlin College graduates, and led the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society in 1858. They both were politically active all their lives, Charles in Kansas and John taking leadership roles in state and national politics, in 1888 becoming the first African-American to be elected to the US Congress from ...
John Langston may refer to: John Mercer Langston (1829–1897), American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician, first dean of the law school at Howard University John Langston (MP) ( c. 1758 –1812), English merchant banker and politician, Member of Parliament (MP) 1784–1807
The John Mercer Langston House is a historic house at 207 East College Avenue in Oberlin, Ohio.Built in 1855, it was home to John Mercer Langston (1829-1897), attorney, abolitionist, diplomat, US Congressman and college president, who was one of the first African Americans elected to public office in the United States.
The NERL founding members included Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, and John Mercer Langston. The organization originated in New York but quickly expanded at the conclusion of the civil war. [1] Several resolutions were passed endorsing the abolition of slavery, legal equality regardless of color or race, and black manhood suffrage.
The university was renamed as Langston University in 1941 in honor of John Mercer Langston (1829–1897), civil rights pioneer, first African-American member of Congress from Virginia, founder of the Howard University Law School, and American consul-general to Haiti. Poet Melvin B. Tolson taught at Langston from
He was an older brother of John Mercer Langston, an accomplished attorney and activist, who had numerous appointed posts, and in 1888 was the first black person elected to the United States Congress from Virginia (and the last for nearly a century). Charles was the grandfather of renowned poet Langston Hughes.