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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 ...
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]
First African American male lawyers: Moses Simons (1816) [7] and Macon Bolling Allen (1844) [8] [9] [10] First African American male lawyer to win a jury trial: Robert Morris (1847) in 1848 [11] First male lawyer of Czech descent: Augustin Haidusek (c. 1870) [12] First African American male lawyer called to the English Bar: [13] Thomas Morris ...
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
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.
John J. Allen (New York politician) Macon Bolling Allen; Robert E. Lee Allen; Thomas Allen (representative) William Ross Allen; William S. Allen; Zachariah Allen;
Harvey Johnson. After passing a bar exam in Maine in 1844, [2] Macon Bolling Allen became the first African American lawyer in the United States. [3] In 1865, John Swett Rock became the first Black person to be admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. [4]