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Born in Indiana as A. Macon Bolling, he moved to New England at some point in the early 1840s and changed his name to Macon Bolling Allen in Boston in January 1844. [1] Soon after, Allen moved to Portland, Maine and studied law, working as an apprentice to Samuel Fessenden, a local abolitionist and attorney. The Portland District Court rejected ...
First African American male (justice of the peace): Macon Bolling Allen in 1847 [4] [5] First African American male (judge): George Lewis Ruffin (1869) in 1883 [1] [2] [3] First Native American male (Great and General Court of Massachusetts): Watson F. Hammond in 1885 [13] First Jewish American male: Abraham K. Cohen in 1912 [14]
Macon is a masculine given name borne by: Macon Bolling Allen (1816–1894), believed to be the first African American to become a lawyer and to argue before a jury, and the second to hold a judicial position in the United States; Macon Blair (born 1974), American film director, producer, screenwriter, comic book writer and actor
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HINCKLEY TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WJW) – Loved ones are mourning the loss of a North Ridgeville couple killed in a motorcycle crash in Medina County on Friday, leaving behind their three children ...
October 15 – Macon Bolling Allen, first African American to become a lawyer, argue before a jury, and hold a judicial position in the United States (born 1816). October 18 – William F. Raynolds, military engineer (born 1820) September 1