John Mercer Langston
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American politician
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John Mercer Langston's Degrees
- Bachelors Agriculture Oberlin College
- Bachelors Law Howard University
Why Is John Mercer Langston Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Mercer Langston was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician. He was the founding dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department. He was the first president of what is now Virginia State University, a historically black college. He was elected a U.S. Representative from Virginia and wrote From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol; Or, the First and Only Negro Representative in Congress From the Old Dominion.
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