Tuesday, December 09, 2008
On This Day In 1872 Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback Became Governor of Louisiana and the First Black Governor Of Any American State.
It took over a hundred years for another African-American to become a governor. Douglas Wilder was the second when he became governor of Virginia in 1990.
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