Alexander, Raymond Pace (only)

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Alexander, Raymond Pace (only)

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Harry S. Truman Library

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Alexander, Raymond Pace, 1898-1974

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Raymond Pace Alexander (October 13, 1897 – November 24, 1974) was an American civil rights leader, lawyer, politician, and the first African American judge appointed to the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas. A native Philadelphian, he was born in 1897 into a large working class family. He graduated from Central High School in 1917; entered the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1917; graduated from the Wharton School in 1920 and from Harvard Law School in June 1923. He was admitted to...