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Oscar Dunn
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Oscar James Dunn served as the 11th lieutenant governor of Louisiana during the era of Reconstruction and was the first African American to serve as lieutenant governor of a U.S. state. He was also th
Lieut. Governor Dunn, La NARA 527896
Lieut. Governor Dunn, La NARA 527896
Portraits of African-American delegates to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, 1868. Dunn, in the center, is pictured seated at his desk.
Portraits of African-American delegates to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, 1868. Dunn, in the center, is pictured seated at his desk.
Henry Clay Warmoth
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Henry Clay Warmoth was an American attorney and veteran Civil War officer in the Union Army who was elected governor and state representative of Louisiana. A Republican, he was 26 years old when elect
Oscar Dunn
…elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana, thus becoming the first African-American lieutenant governor of a U.S. state. He ran on the ticket headed by Henry Clay Warmoth, formerly of Illinois. In 1871, he became the first first African-American acting governor of a U.S. state after Governor Warmoth injured his foot and…
Photo by William Kurtz, c. 1875
Photo by William Kurtz, c. 1875
Henry Clay Warmoth, later in life
Henry Clay Warmoth, later in life
Warmoth with family and servants at the Magnolia Plantation in Plaquemines Parish
Warmoth with family and servants at the Magnolia Plantation in Plaquemines Parish