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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.
First African American male: Macon Bolling Allen (1845) [4] [5] First African American male to try and win a lawsuit in Massachusetts: Robert Morris Sr. (1847) [6] First Chinese American male: Harry Dow (1929) [7]
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 (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
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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 [171] Macon County Court of Common Pleas (elec. 1972) Alabama: deceased: C. Ellen Connally [172] Cleveland Municipal Court (1980–2004) Ohio: deceased: Annette Cook [27] Office of Administrative ...