Harvard University Howard University School of Law
Spouse
Mary Church
(m. 1891)
Children
5 (including one adopted and three died in infancy)
Robert Heberton Terrell (November 27, 1857 – December 20, 1925) was an attorney and the second African American to serve as a justice of the peace in Washington, DC. In 1911 he was appointed as a judge to the District of Columbia Municipal Court by President William Howard Taft; he was one of four African-American men appointed to high office and considered his "Black Cabinet". He was reappointed as judge under succeeding administrations, including that of Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
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Phyllis Terrell was born on April 2, 1898, in Washington, D.C., to Mary Church Terrell, an activist for civil rights and suffrage, and RobertHeberton Terrell...
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Church Terrell was born in Tennessee and educated at Oberlin College. She became a school teacher in Washington 1887, and married RobertHebertonTerrell, a...
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High School) in Washington, D.C., grades nine through eleven. RobertHebertonTerrell was the Principal. On June 22, 1901, Dabney was promoted from 1st...
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