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Firsts. George Lewis Ruffin was the first black law student to graduate from Harvard Law School in 1869. In 1901, Clement G. Morgan was the first African American lawyer in Massachusetts to argue before the Supreme Judicial Court.
Ruffin, George L. (George Lewis), 1834-1886: Life and times of Frederick Douglass : his early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history to the present time, including his connection with the anti-slavery movement ...
Dec 3, 2019 · She married her husband, George Lewis Ruffin in 1858 at the age of 16 and he was 24. He came from a free and affluent black Virginian family. He was the first African American Harvard Law School graduate and the first black judge in the North.
At 16 years old, she married George Lewis Ruffin (1834–1886), who later became the first African American graduate from Harvard Law School, the first African American elected to the Boston City Council, and the first African American municipal judge.
Ruffin was born August 31, 1842 into one of Boston's leading black families. In 1858, at the age of 15, she became the wife of George Lewis Ruffin, the first African American to graduate from ...
RUFFIN, George Lewis, lawyer, born in Richmond, Virginia, 16 December, 1834; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 19 November, 1886. He was of African descent, but of free parentage, and was educated at the public schools in Boston.
