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  2. 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]

  3. George Lewis Ruffin (16 December 1834 - 19 November 1886) 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...

  4. Sep 30, 2011 · Ruffin served as a Massachusetts court judge until his death 1886, and Grimke, an escaped slave from South Carolina, became national vice president of the NAACP.

  5. 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.

  6. Sep 3, 2011 · The jurist George Lewis Ruffin, a gentleman in his own right, (first black person to graduate from Harvard Law, first black judge in American history) opens Frederick Douglass last...

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  8. 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.

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