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John Mercer Langston, an educator, a diplomat, and the first African American in Virginia to serve as a U.S. congressman (1890–1891), is the subject of this studio portrait. The photograph's caption identifies him as "Prof. John Langston, Howard University." In 1868 Langston became the first dean of Howard University's law school, and in 1872 he served briefly as acting president of the ...
Sources consulted for the biography of: John Mercer Langston (1829–1897) Biographical Information. John Mercer Langston, From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol, or The First and Only Negro Representative in Congress from the Old Dominion (1894), first quotation on p.12, and date of marriage on p. 142–143.
John Mercer Langston was the first African American elected to public office. He was born on the plantation of Captain Ralph Quarles in Louisa County, Virginia. Quarles was his father, and his mother, Lucy Langston, was a former slave of African and Native American descent who had been emancipated by Quarles.
John Mercer Langston. U.S. public official, diplomat, educator. Born: 12/14/1829. Birthplace: Louisa County, Va. Langston was the son of Ralph Quarles, a white plantation owner, and Jane Langston, a Black slave. After his parents died when Langston was five, he and his brothers moved to Oberlin, Ohio, to live with family friends.
John Mercer Langston (1829-1897) The World's Anti-Slavery Movement: Its Heroes and its Triumphs. A lecture delivered at Xenia and Cleveland, Ohio, August 2nd and 3rd, 1858. Citizenship and the Ballot: The Relations of the Colored American to the Government and its Duty to Him- A Colored American the First Hero of the Revolutionary War
The Langston Golf Course, named after John Mercer Langston (the first African American elected to the United States Congress from Virginia, and the first dean of Howard University Law School) opened in 1939. Prior to the founding of Langston, African Americans played golf at Lincoln Memorial (now West Potomac Park).
This date marks the birth in 1829 of John Mercer Langston, an African American abolitionist, attorney, educator, and political activist. Langston was born free to a white plantation owner John Quarles and Lucy Jane Langston, a slave. He was the youngest of four children. His older brother, Charles Henry, became noted abolitionist Charles Henry Langston, and John was the great-uncle of renowned ...
