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    John Willis Menard (April 3, 1838 – October 8, 1893) was a federal government employee, poet, newspaper publisher and politician born in Kaskaskia, Illinois...
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  • John Menard may refer to: John Menard Jr. (born 1940), businessman John Willis Menard (1838–1893), politician This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • home improvement stores John Willis Menard (1838–1893), first African-American elected to the United States Congress Léon Ménard (1706–1767), French lawyer...
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    of Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Thomas married Alice Menard, the daughter of politician John Willis Menard who in 1868 was the first African American elected...
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  • parliament John Willis Menard (1838–1893), American federal government employee, poet, newspaper publisher and politician USS John Willis (DE-1027), a...
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  • First African-American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives: John Willis Menard. His opponent contested his election, and opposition to his election...
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  • of Louisiana, and longtime Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court John Willis Menard (1838–1893) – U.S. Congressman Ernest Nathan Morial (1929–1989) –...
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    City, Missouri John Rice Jones, jurist and politician Samuel Judy, pioneer and legislator Lucien Maxwell, rancher John Willis Menard, the first African...
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  • Retrieved January 19, 2024. BlackPast (January 28, 2007). "(1869) John Willis Menard, "Speech Before the United States House of Representatives"". blackpast...
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    Elections. pp. 226–228. ISBN 9785880686292. Office of the Historian. "John Willis Menard of Louisiana became the first African American to address the U.S...
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    and Boston. Later that year the Department of the Interior sent John Willis Menard, a free African American clerk who supported colonization, to investigate...
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  • October 6 – Ford Madox Brown, English painter (b. 1821) October 8 – John Willis Menard, African-American politician (b. 1838) October 10 – Lip Pike, American...
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    Minister of France (d. 1882) April 3 – John Willis Menard, African-American politician (d. 1893) April 12 – John Shaw Billings, American military and medical...
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    decided to keep the seat officially vacant until the 41st congress. See John Willis Menard. Christie, Les. "Growth states: Arizona overtakes Nevada: Texas adds...
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  • prohibition; longtime National Superintendent of the U.S. Anti-Saloon League John Willis Menard (via Iberia College and Ohio Central College), first African-American...
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  • Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later). 1868 – John Willis Menard (R-LA) was the first African American elected to the United States...
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  • Hill, astronomer (died 1914) April 3 – John Willis Menard, African American politician (died 1893) April 12 – John Shaw Billings, military and medical leader...
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  • Long – Georgia 1871 John R. Lynch – Mississippi 1873–1877, 1882–1883 (also speaker of the Mississippi House) John Willis Menard – Louisiana, 1868 elected...
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  • Susan B. Anthony, Senator Samuel Clarke Pomeroy, Parker Pillsbury, John Willis Menard and Doctor Sarah H. Hathaway. Doctor Mary Edwards Walker and a "Mrs...
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    (removed in February 1895 to Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York) John Willis Menard (1838–1893), the first African American ever elected to Congress (believed...
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    Woodlawn Cemetery in 1895, but if so then his grave is unmarked. John Willis Menard of Louisiana, the first African American ever elected to Congress...
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    The earliest known Black American journalists in Florida were John T. Shuften and John Wallace, who both worked for newspapers that were otherwise white...
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  • League". The News and Courier. 8 April 1886. p. 8. Beatty, B. (1980). John Willis Menard: A Progressive Black in Post-Civil War Florida. The Florida Historical...
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  • August 26, 1868. The special election to succeed Mann was won by John Willis Menard, the first African American ever elected to Congress, but the House...
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  • Player Patrick McLain, MLS player Paul Menard, NASCAR driver Chuck Mencel, NBA player Pat O'Donahue, NFL player Willis S. Olson, Olympic ski jumper, member...
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  • Meghan Ory, Greg Cipes, Samantha McLeod, Nicole LaPlaca, Steve Bacic, Marc Menard, Brendan Penny, Chelan Simmons, Alfred E. Humphreys, Fulvio Cecere, Nicki...
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  • 1909. The Willhelms came from Germany in 1878, followed by the John I. Jones's, Willis Huey, Espy's and the Wheelers. Then there were the Young's, Groves...
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    personal computer, the IBM PC, after Gates's mother mentioned Microsoft to John Opel, IBM's then CEO. IBM first proposed that Microsoft write the BASIC interpreter...
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  • more than others". New Scientist. Retrieved 1 July 2020. Fitzpatrick, John L.; Willis, Charlotte; Devigili, Alessandro; Young, Amy; Carroll, Michael; Hunter...
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  • include: 2004 – "Caroline" by James E Crowther 2005 – "Portrait of Chantal Menard" by Sean Cheetham 2006 – "Matthew" by Ben Jamie 2007 – "Winter Portrait"...
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