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Francis Lewis Cardozo (February 1, 1836 – July 22, 1903) was an American clergyman, politician, and educator. When elected in South Carolina as Secretary of State in 1868, he was the first African American to hold a statewide office in the United States.
Quando Francis Lewis Cardozo foi eleito secretário de Estado da Carolina do Sul em 1868, ele se tornou o primeiro negro americano a ser eleito para um cargo político no estado. Seu trabalho como clérigo, educador e político permitiu que ele lutasse pelos direitos dos negros americanos durante o período da Reconstrução.
10 de out. de 2021 · Francis Lewis Cardozo was a minister, educator, and politician, who was born free in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 1, 1836. Cardozo was of mixed ancestry, as his father, Isaac Nunez Cardozo, was a Sephardic Jew, and his mother, Lydia Williams Weston, was a free woman of color.
28 de jan. de 2007 · Francis Louis Cardozo, the freeborn son of an African American woman and a Jewish economist, was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1837. Through his personal savings and a thousand dollar scholarship, Cardozo attended the University of Glasgow and later a theological school in London.
Francis L. Cardozo. Born February 1, 1837. Charleston, South Carolina. Died July 22, 1903. Washington, D.C. Minister, educator, and politician. "One of the greatest of slavery bulwarks was the infernal plantation system.… I maintain that our freedom will be of no effect if we allow it to continue.
Francis Louis Cardozo had come home to educate his recently emancipated brethren. Born January 1, 1837, of a Jewish businessman father and a free Black mother, Cardozo received his early education in Charleston schools for free Blacks. At age twelve he was withdrawn from school and became an apprentice carpen- ter.
25 de jan. de 2018 · Soon after he founded the school in Charleston, Cardozo was elected the Secretary of State of South Carolina. He was the first African American to be elected to a state office. Cardozo also served as the principal of an African American high school in Washington, DC.
