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Oscar Stanton De Priest
Oscar Stanton De Priest
(March 9, 1871 – May 12, 1951) was an
American
lawmaker and
civil rights
advocate who served as a
U.S. Representative
from
Illinois
from 1929 to 1935. He was the first
African American
to be elected to
Congress
from outside the
southern states
and the first in the 20th century.
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