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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.
He taught the children for about three years. In 1863, Langston returned to Ohio and, like his brother John Mercer, helped recruit African Americans for the United States Colored Troops when Ohio raised its first regiment. By 1865, about 2,455 blacks, nearly one-fifth of those in Kansas, lived in Leavenworth, close to Missouri.
Carrie Langston's paternal uncle, John Mercer Langston, was a post-emancipation congressman from Virginia, who later served as Minister to Haiti and Dean of Howard University School of Law. [ 4 ] Mary Leary's first husband, Lewis Sheridan Leary , died in 1859 from injuries incurred aiding John Brown during the Harper's Ferry raid on the federal ...
In 1854, John Mercer Langston notably became the first African American lawyer in the state of Ohio. He went on to serve as the dean of the law department and vice president of Howard University.
John Mercer Langston; Lewis Sheridan Leary; Q. Francis Quarles This page was last edited on 15 October 2023, at 04:01 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Nettie Langston was born June 17, 1861 [2] in Oberlin, Ohio, into an upper-class family. Her father was John Mercer Langston, later the founding dean of the law school at Howard University, first president of Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, a historically black college, and the first black person to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia.
“This district over a hundred years ago sent John Mercer Langston to Congress as the first African American Virginian,” said the Virginia state senator on the night of her win. “This city ...
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