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Today In History

John Mercer Langston was born on this date December 14, 1829. In Louisa, Virginia.

Langston was elected Clerk of Brownhelm Township, OH, in 1855. This election is believed to be the first in which a Black person was elected to public office.

He helped recruit African American troops during the American Civil War (1861–1865). After the war, his involvement with the Freedmen’s Bureau as inspector of schools brought him back to Virginia.

Langston later became Virginia’s first Black Congressman.

In 1870 Langston became dean of Howard University’s law school and served as acting president of the university from 1873 until 1875. In 1885, the Virginia State Board of Education named Langston president of the new Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute.

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John Mercer Langston was the first Black man to become a lawyer when he passed the bar in Ohio in 1854. When he was elected to the post of Town Clerk for Brownhelm, Ohio, in 1855 Langston became one of the first African Americans ever elected to public office in America. John Mercer Langston was also the great-uncle of Langston Hughes, famed poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

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John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 – November 15, 1897) was an abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician. He became the first dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department. He was the first president of what is now Virginia State University. in 1888 he was elected to Congress as the first representative of color from Virginia. In the Jim Crow era, he was one of five African Americans elected to Congress from the South before the former Confederate states passed constitutions and electoral rules from 1890 to 1908 that disenfranchised African Americans, excluding them from politics. After that, no African Americans would be elected from the South until 1973, after the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed to enforce their constitutional franchise rights. His early career was based in OH where, with his older brother Charles Henry Langston, he began his lifelong work for African-American freedom, education, equal rights, and suffrage. In 1855 he was one of the first African Americans in the US elected to public office when elected as a town clerk in OH. The brothers were the grandfather and great-uncle, respectively, of the renowned poet Langston Hughes. He earned a BA and a MA in theology from Oberlin College. Denied admission to law schools in NY and OH because of his race, he studied law as an apprentice under attorney and Republican congressman Philemon Bliss; he was admitted to the OH bar in 1854. In OH, he was associated with abolitionist lawyer Sherlock James Andrews. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CmJXrymrYtT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I was listening to the "1865" podcast by Wondery and thought, "I know that voice!" ... It was Chidi! I mean John Mercer Langston! I mean William Jackson Harper!

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Juneteenth: conmemorando la emancipación y la conexión histórica con RD

por Patricia Aguilera, encargada de Negocios de la Embajada de los Estados Unidos Diariamente, al entrar en la Embajada de los Estados Unidos de camino a mi oficina, contemplo los retratos de tres hombres brillantes: John Mercer Langston, Ebenezer Bassett y Frederick Douglass. Fueron los tres primeros encargados de Negocios de los Estados Unidos en la República Dominicana. Todos profesionales…

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John Mercer Langston was identified as the first Black lawyer when he passed the bar in Ohio in 1854. The next year he was elected as Town Clerk in Brownhelm, Ohio and was the first African American ever elected to hold a public office in America.

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Today In History John Mercer Langston was born on this date December 14, 1829. In Louisa, Virginia. Langston was elected Clerk of Brownhelm Township, OH, in 1855. This election is believed to be the first in which a Black person was elected to public office. Langston later became Virginia’s first Black Congressman. CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #staywoke #carter #cartermagazine #johnmercerlangston #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history https://www.instagram.com/p/CmJTvGVOEq_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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New Cincinnati Mural Honors John Mercer Langston

Revealed during the recent Blink extravaganza, a new mural decorates a wall on Logan Street near Findlay Market. This remarkable portrait of a distinguished, gentleman was chipped from the façade by a Portuguese artist who goes by the pseudonym “Vhils.”

Since the mural is not labeled, Cincinnatians may wonder who is portrayed. His name is John Mercer Langston and, although he lived in the Queen City for only a couple of years, he is someone we should be proud to claim.

John Mercer Langston was born in Virginia in 1829. Although he was African American and Virginia was a slave state, Langston was born free. His mother was Lucy Jane Langston, of African American and American Indian ancestry. His father was Ralph Quarles, the white plantation owner who once owned Lucy and fathered four children with her. By the time Langston was four, both of his parents were dead. Langston moved to Chillicothe, Ohio with his guardian, a Quaker farmer named William Gooch.

When he was 10 years old, Langston was sent to Cincinnati, where his oldest brother owned a barbershop and a livery stable, so he might attend school. Even in a free state such as Ohio, African American children were barred from public education. The only schools available to black youth were private programs, generally sponsored by liberal churches. In Cincinnati, Langston attended the school operated by two white ministers at the Baker Street Baptist Church. According to Langston’s autobiography, Cincinnati’s black community achieved a level of sophistication unknown in other cities:

“If there has ever existed in any colored community of the United States, anything like an aristocratic class of such persons, it was found in Cincinnati at the time to which reference is here made. Besides finding there then a large class of such persons, composed in greater part of good looking, well-dressed and well-behaved young people of considerable accomplishment, one could count many families possessing a reasonable amount of means, who bore themselves seemingly in consciousness of their personal dignity and social worth.”

This attainment brought forth an ugly resentment among the city’s white population, and it was during his brief stay in Cincinnati that Langston witnessed one of the darkest episodes in the city’s history – the Riot of 1841. The “riot” was actually a concerted attack in which a mob of white men attacked the local African American community. Dozens of people were killed in the armed conflict, much of the neighborhood known as “Little Africa” was destroyed, and many citizens of color fled from Cincinnati. As Langston remembered it:

“Such fear proved to be well grounded ; for about nine o'clock, a large ruffianly company, coming over from the adjacent towns of Kentucky, called together a large number of the baser sort of the people of Cincinnati, and opened, without the least delay, an outrageous, barbarous and deadly attack upon the entire class of the colored people. They were assaulted wherever found upon the streets, and with such weapons and violence as to cause death in many cases, no respect being had to the character, position, or innocence of those attacked. The only circumstance that seemed necessary to provoke assault, resulting even in death, was the color of the person thus treated.”

Many of Cincinnati’s black residents fled the city, some as far as Canada. Langston settled in Lorain County on the shore of Lake Erie, where he attended Oberlin College and earned a master’s degree in theology. Despite this achievement, he was denied entry to any law school and studied law privately with a willing attorney. Langston was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1854, becoming the first African American lawyer in Ohio. While he practiced law, Langston aided fugitive slaves as a conductor in the Underground Railroad. He held leadership positions in several Abolitionist societies.

Langston claimed a new first in 1855 when he was elected township clerk, becoming the first African American elected to any office in the United States. During the Civil War, he recruited troops for black regiments in Ohio and Massachusetts. After the war, he worked in the Freedmen’s Bureau, assisting former slaves. With the election of President Ulysses S. Grant, Langston created a national sensation by daring to suggest that an African American deserved a seat on Grant’s Cabinet. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer [8 November 1872]:

“He declares a cabinet position is due the colored race for the share they have had in electing General Grant, and he selects the post of Attorney-General, as he stated to-day, because it is in the line of his profession, and best suited to his tastes.”

While a Cabinet post eluded him, Howard University selected Langston as the first dean of its new law school. While living in Washington, DC, Langston championed civil rights legislation, was appointed to the Board of Health, became the first African American to practice before the Supreme Court, and was named Ambassador to Haiti by President Rutherford B. Hayes.

Langston was named president of the college now known as Virginia State University and ran for Congress. He lost, but challenged the results on the basis of fraud and voter intimidation. His plea was upheld, and he gained his seat a year after the election, the first African American to represent Virginia.

Langston died in 1897. A town and a university in Oklahoma and an elementary school in Washington, DC, were named in his honor. His grand-nephew, the poet Langston Hughes, carried on his surname.

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Petition of the Convention of Colored People of Ohio

In early 1849, freedmen of Ohio convened and composed this petition to Congress, urging lawmakers to repeal the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.  

We are an orderly, law abiding, and peace loving people, but when we see our brother, sister, father, or mother, chained and fettered to be dragged into disgraceful bondage, filial and fraternal affection forces us to release the captive and thereby subject ourselves to the penalty of said law, for doing what nature and nature's God imperiously require at our hands.  

In the decades preceding the Civil War, Colored Conventions brought black abolitionists together to organize and advocate for emancipation and civil rights.  This petition shows the political activism of the black community of Ohio.  The president of the Convention, Charles Henry Langston (1817-1892), was a noted activist and educator.  Born free in Virginia to a formerly enslaved woman and a wealthy white planter, Langston came of age in Ohio.  He and his brother Gideon were the first African-Americans to be admitted to Oberlin College, in 1835.  In 1858, Langston stood trial for his role in rescuing John Price, an escaped slave who was kidnapped in Ohio by slave-catchers (the case is known as the Oberlin-Wellington rescue).  Langston shared his activism with his two brothers, one of whom, John Mercer Langston, became the first black congressman from Virginia in 1890 (and the last, for another century). And activism and self-expression were inherited by subsequent generations: twentieth century poet, Langston Hughes, was Charles Henry Langston's grandson.

Petitions and Memorials Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 30th Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Record Group 233 

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John Mercer Langston was born on December 14, 1829, in Louisa County, Virginia. In 1854, Langston became the first African-American lawyer in Ohio. In 1888, he became the first African American to win a congressional election in the state of Virginia, having run as a Republican candidate for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Langston served in Congress from 1890 to 1891. 

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    In honor of Black History Month, we’re celebrating the accomplishments of John Mercer Langston, who lived here in Chillicothe as a young man.

    John was the son of was an emancipated slave, Lucy Langston. His father, Ralph Quarles, was a plantation owner who would have married Lucy if the law had not forbidden it. Over twenty-five years, the couple had four children. 

    In 1834, both of John’s parents died, but his father had made arrangements for his children’s care with William Gooch, an old friend, who promised he would care for and educate the children. Gooch moved the children to Chillicothe, Ohio. There, John was treated as a member of Gooch’s family - so much so that he was known as “Johnny Gooch” around town.

    He was educated by one of Gooch’s daughters until he was old enough to attend school. In 1839, William Gooch wanted to move the family to Missouri, but the sheriff of Ross County and John’s older brother William stopped their canal boat before it reached Waverly. They were concerned what would happen to John if he was moved to a slave state. The case was heard before the local court and the judge ruled in William’s favor. The Gooch family departed without him, and John was devastated, but in a speech given in 1889, he thanked God the court had ruled as it did, because his life might have been very different.

    He lived for a time with Richard Long, who’d bought the farm.  (Coincidentally, Long built the house which now contains the Ross County Historical Society’s museum.) After attending school in Cincinnati, he moved in with the Hawes family in Chillicothe, where he completed his education under two graduates of Oberlin College.

    John’s older brothers were the first black students to attend Oberlin College. John himself attended and received first a bachelor’s degree, and then a master’s degree in theology. Denied permission to attend law school because of his race, John read law under Republican Congressman Philemon Bliss. In 1854, John became the first African-American admitted to the Ohio Bar.

    Active in the abolitionist movement, John was selected to recruit African-American soldiers for the 54th and 55th Regiments and the Ohio 127th Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.

    In 1868, he became the dean of Howard University’s new law school, which he’d helped establish. It was the first law school for people of color. Later, he was the university’s vice-president, but he was refused the presidency of the university for undisclosed reasons.

    In the 1870s, he helped Senator Charles Sumner write the 1875 Civil Rights Act. He served as a diplomat to Haiti, and after his return, he became the president of Virginia Normal School and Collegiate Institute.

     After a contested election in which voter fraud and intimidation led to a Congressional committee investigation, in 1888, he became the first African-American elected to Congress from the state of Virginia. He was one of five black Congressmen elected during this period - after them, no African-Americans would be elected to Congress until 1972.

    Until his death in 1897, John practiced law in Washington, DC. It was there he was buried after he died from malaria.