John Mercer Langston (1829-1897), son of ?
John Mercer Langston (1829-1897), son of a white Virginia planter and a slave mother, was freed as a young child and educated, graduating from Oberlin College in 1849. In 1888 he won election to the House of Representatives, but spent most of his term fig
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