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George Lewis Ruffin (December 16, 1834 – November 19, 1886) was an American barber, attorney, politician, and judge. In 1869, he graduated from Harvard Law School, the first African American to do so. He was also the first African American elected to the Boston City Council. [1]
Sep 30, 2011 · Harvard Law School was founded with a bequest from Isaac Royall, a brutal slave owner. Two centuries later, the first black President of the U.S. and first black First Lady are HLS alumni.
Jan 19, 2007 · George Lewis Ruffin was born December 16, 1834 in Richmond, Virginia, the son of free Blacks. He was educated in Boston, Massachusetts and soon became a force in the city’s civic leadership.
George Lewis Ruffin 1834–1886. Lawyer, judge. George Lewis Ruffin graduated Harvard Law School just four years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. As the first African American graduate of Harvard Law School, Ruffin surmounted the same academic challenges as every student.
George Lewis Ruffin was an American attorney and judge. In 1869 he was the first African American to graduate from Harvard Law School, and was elected as the first African American to serve on the Boston City Council.
Lawyer & Judge. Originally from Virginia, George Ruffin was the eldest son of free Black parents. His family moved to Boston in response to a law that prohibited free Blacks in Virginia from learning to read or write.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and George Ruffin were eminent African-American residents of the West End in the late nineteenth-century. Josephine’s newspaper, The Woman’s Era, was published from her home and instrumental to the founding of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) in 1896.
