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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.
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.
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 ...
Macon Bolling Allen became the first Black person licensed to practice law in the United States in 1844, at a time when slavery flourished and the Constitution didn’t even grant Black Americans ...
Ellen Craft was born in 1826 in Clinton, Georgia, to Maria, a mixed-race enslaved woman, and her wealthy planter slaveholder, Major James Smith. At least three-quarters European by ancestry, Ellen was very fair-skinned and resembled her white half-siblings, who were her enslaver's legitimate children.
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The couple originally purchased approximately 10 acres of land in east Macon near the Twiggs County line on Marion road to clear and build a home as well as a pumpkin patch and fall agri-tourism farm.
Macon Judicial Circuit (2014–2020); Georgia Court of Appeals (2020–2021); Georgia Supreme Court (2021– ) Georgia: active: Charles Swinger Conley [172] Macon County Court of Common Pleas (elec. 1972) Alabama: deceased: C. Ellen Connally [173] Cleveland Municipal Court (1980–2004) Ohio: deceased: Annette Cook [27] Office of Administrative ...