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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 ...
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 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
The man who allegedly killed his wife last week in Macon had repeatedly been accused of domestic violence before the fatal shooting, according to the Bibb County district attorney’s office ...
The mother of Macon woman killed three years ago in a shooting stood in court Monday and asked the man who took her daughter’s life to apologize.
DOVER — A local man killed his wife and daughter last week before killing himself, according to preliminary autopsy results.. The state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner 's preliminary ...
Macon Bolling Allen (1816–1894), judge of the Charleston County, South Carolina, Criminal Court Michael P. Allen (born 1967), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims William J. Allen (1829–1901), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
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