Judson Whitlocke Lyons

Judson Whitlocke Lyons

Judson Whitlocke Lyons
Born 1860
Richmond County, Georgia, U.S.
Died 1924 (aged 6364)
Richmond County, Georgia, U.S.
Nationality American
Occupation Lawyer
Political party Republican[1]

Judson Whitlocke Lyons was a graduate of Howard University law, who became the first African American attorney in Georgia.[2]

Career

In 1880, he was the youngest member of the Republican National Convention at the age of 20, and was later appointed Register of the Treasury by President William McKinley in 1898,[2] He was the second African American to hold this post.

See also

References

  1. Clarke, Thomas H.R.; McKay, Barney (1901). A Republican Text-Book for Colored Voters. Washington, D.C.: T.H.R. Clarke and B. McKay. Retrieved February 28, 2016. W. Bourke Cocharn, of New York, a leading Northern Democrat, has emphasized the above expression of Senator Tillman by advocating a repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Thus the Democratic party North and South is joining hands to disfranchise the negro.
  2. 1 2 "Find a Grave". Findagrave.com. Retrieved 2015-05-04.

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Preceded by
Blanche Kelso Bruce
Register of the Treasury
April 7, 1898 to April 1, 1906
Succeeded by
William Tecumseh Vernon


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