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John Mercer Langston. Library of Congress description: "Prof. John Langston, Howard University".

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.00690. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH83- 30771 <P&P>[P&P]

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Description	American photographer, war photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death	18 May 1822	15 January 1896
Location of birth/death	New York	Manhattan
Work period	from 1844 until circa 1887 date QS:P,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	New York City, Washington, D.C.
Authority file	: Q187850 VIAF: 22965552 ISNI: 0000000122094376 ULAN: 500126201 LCCN: n81140569 NAID: 10570155 WorldCat



Alternative names	Levin C. Handy
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	10 August 1855	26 March 1932 / 23 March 1932
Location of birth/death	Washington, D.C.	Washington, D.C.
Authority file	: Q12033170 VIAF: 58349202 ISNI: 000000003167288X LCCN: n96077991 Open Library: OL6939460A SUDOC: 190215208 WorldCat

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Deutsch: John Mercer Langston (* 14. Dezember 1829 in Louisa County, Virginia, USA; † 15. November 1897 in Washington D.C.) war ein schwarzer Anwalt und Politiker. Er war neben Frederick Douglass einer der bekanntesten und einflussreichsten Bürgerrechtler des 19. Jahrhunderts. Er war der erste Afroamerikaner, welcher in Virginia ins Repräsentantenhaus gewählt wurde.

English: John Mercer Langston ( December 14 1829 – November 15 1897) was an American abolitionist and U.S. Congressman from Virginia. He was the first black man in the United States to be elected to public office when in 1855 he was elected as a town clerk in Ohio.

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This work is from the Brady-Handy collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.

Mathew Brady died in 1896 and Levin C. Handy died in 1932. Photographs in this collection are in the public domain in the United States as works published before 1929 or as unpublished works whose copyright term has expired (life of author + 70 years).

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