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Macon Bolling Allen (born Allen Macon Bolling; August 4, 1816 – October 15, 1894) was an American attorney who is 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.
First African American male judge: Macon Bolling Allen (1844) in 1847 [8] [9] First African American male elected as a county judge in the South since Reconstruction: James Dean (1884) in 1888 [72] [73] First Chinese American male judge: William "Billy" Heen in 1917 [74] First Portuguese American male judge: Frank M. Silvia in 1920 [75] [76]
Arenda Wright Allen [25] United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (2011– ) Virginia: active: Macon Bolling Allen [26] Justice of the Peace for Middlesex County (appt. 1848); Inferior Court of Charleston (appt. 1873); Charleston County Probate Court (appt. 1873) Massachusetts: deceased: Christopher M. Alston [27]
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
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 Bolling Allen (1816–1894), the first African American licensed to practice law and to hold a judicial position in the United States Zipporah Potter Atkins (mid-1600s), the first African American to own land in the city of Boston
According to some sources, Morris and Macon Bolling Allen opened America's first black law office in Boston, [5] but the authors of Sarah's Long Walk say there is "no direct knowledge that [Allen and Morris] ever met", [6] nor is such a partnership mentioned in Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944.
Macon Bolling Allen – Justice of the Peace for Middlesex County (also probate judge in South Carolina) Charles E. Harris – Boston Common Council (also Massachusetts House) Andrew B. Lattimore – Ward 9 Boston Common Council (also Massachusetts House)