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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]
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.
May 12, 2019 · May 12, 2019. In 1869, when George Lewis Ruffin became the first Black Harvard Law School graduate and later went on to become the first African-America judge in Massachusetts, not many could've imagined the day when the law school would house over 60 students of color.
Sep 30, 2011 · George Lewis Ruffin 1869 and Archibald H. Grimke 1874, the first two blacks to graduate from HLS, entered a school that was still a “stronghold of anti-black feeling,” Coquillette said. 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 ...
He was one of the first African Americans to be admitted to the Massachusetts bar, and he became the first African- American judge in Massachusetts. Mr. Ruffin was elected to the House of Representatives and served on the Common Council.
George’s legacy is honored through the George Lewis Ruffin Society, established in 1894 and now based at Northeastern University, to support minority professionals working in the...
Dec 17, 2015 · 1834 - 1886 George Lewis Ruffin is born in Richmond, Virginia. The son of free African Americans, he and his wife, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924), will flee to England after the Dred Scott decision (1857), and return soon to Boston.
