Greener, Richard Theodore, 1844-1922
Educator, lawyer and consular officer. Richard T. Greener was born in Philadelphia on January 30, 1844 and died in Chicago on May 2, 1922. He attended Harvard College where he won top prizes for oratory and dissertation writing and in 1870 became that institution's first African-American graduate.
After graduation Greener pursued a teaching career and was a professor of metaphysics and logic at the University of South Carolina from 1873 to 1877, during which time he also served as University Librarian. In this period he also completed his law degree, and was admitted to the bar in 1876 in the state of South Carolina and in the District of Columbia, a year later. From 1877 to 1880 he was a law instructor and dean of the Law Department of Howard University. With the disbanding of the Howard University Law Department, Greener remained in Washington where he practiced law and actively campaigned on behalf of the Republican Party.
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