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Jonathan Jasper Wright

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Lawyer
Died
Feb 18, 1885
Zodiac
Aquarius
Born in
Pennsylvania
About
During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era, this African-American judge served in South Carolina's Supreme Court. Earlier in his career, he had been the primary attorney for the Freedmen's Bureau of Beaufort, South Carolina, and had held office as Vice-President of the South Carolina Constitutional Convention.
Family
He was raised in Montrose, Pennsylvania, and he later lived in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and Beaufort and Charleston, South Carolina.

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