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Robert Heberton Terrell (November 27, 1857 – December 20, 1925) was an attorney and the second African American to serve as a justice of the peace in Washington, DC. In 1911 he was appointed as a judge to the District of Columbia Municipal Court by President William Howard Taft ; he was one of four African-American men appointed to ...
24 de jun. de 2008 · Despite bitter opposition to his appointment from Southern Democratic Senators, Terrell on January 15, 1910 became the first African American judge in the nation’s capital. Terrell served as judge until his death in 1925. While serving as municipal judge, Terrell was also on the faculty of the Howard University Law School.
Robert Terrell, Teacher, and Judge born. *On this date, in 1857, Robert Terrell was born. He was a Black attorney, teacher, and judge. Robert Heberton Terrell was born in Orange, Virginia, to parents Harrison and Louisa Ann Terrell. The family moved to Washington, DC, in 1865 after the American Civil War and emancipation ended.
8 de jun. de 2016 · While she stopped working soon after she married a lawyer named Robert Heberton Terrell, she never closed her eyes to the injustices happening around her. Then again, how could she?
Contents. Robert Heberton Terrell. American jurist. Learn about this topic in these articles: association with Mary Church Terrell. In Mary Eliza Church Terrell. …from Oberlin (1888) and married Robert Heberton Terrell, a lawyer who would become the first black municipal court judge in the nation’s capital. Read More.
The papers of Robert Heberton Terrell (1857-1925) span the years 1870-1954, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1884-1925. The collection consists mainly of correspondence, speeches and writings, clippings, printed matter, and miscellaneous items.
Terrell, Robert Herberton 1857-1925. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Robert Terrell graduated from Harvard College in 1884 and then attended law school at Howard University. He taught in public schools in Washington, D.C., for five years. He then resigned to work as chief clerk in the office of the auditor of the U.S. Treasury.
