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    Oscar Stanton De Priest (March 9, 1871 – May 12, 1951) was an American politician and civil rights advocate from Chicago. A member of the Illinois Republican...
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    Jessie De Priest (née Williams; September 3, 1870 – March 31, 1961) was an American music teacher who was married to Oscar Stanton De Priest, the first...
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    The Oscar Stanton De Priest House is a historic apartment building at 4536-4538 South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Chicago, Illinois,. It was built...
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    Daniel Hale Williams House, the Robert S. Abbott House, and the Oscar Stanton De Priest House. According to a 2018 US Census American Community Survey...
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    General Services Administration Jessie De Priest (1870–1961), Music teacher, wife of Congressman Oscar Stanton De Priest, her presence at a White House tea...
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    of the United States Lou Hoover invited Jessie De Priest, wife of Chicago congressman Oscar De Priest, to the traditional tea hosted by new administrations...
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    1905 – April 27, 1928) Vacant (April 27, 1928 – March 3, 1929) Oscar Stanton De Priest, Republican (March 4, 1929 – January 3, 1935) Arthur W. Mitchell...
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    developer Ronald Coase, economist Lydia Avery Coonley, author Oscar Stanton De Priest first African American in the 20th century to be elected to Congress...
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    Chicago's second African-American alderman after his predecessor Oscar Stanton De Priest. De Priest had resigned in scandal after being indicted of accepting...
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    century to send an African American to Congress when Republican Oscar Stanton De Priest was elected to represent the district. The 1st has been represented...
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    States Congress. United States Congress. Retrieved July 16, 2013. "De Priest, Oscar Stanton, (1871 - 1951)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress...
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  • Alan Thacker Busby. First African-American alderman of Chicago: Oscar Stanton De Priest First African American to play in a Rose Bowl game: Fritz Pollard...
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    1917, Chicago alderman Oscar Stanton De Priest founded the Peoples Movement Club and made Unity Hall its headquarters. De Priest was the first African-American...
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    Allan C. Carr, Carl R. Chindblom, John P. Daley, Danny K. Davis, Oscar Stanton De Priest, Marco Domico, Martin Emerich, Carter Harrison Sr., John Humphrey...
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    Gifford) Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Claude V. Parsons; Ranking Member: Oscar Stanton De Priest) Expenditures in the Executive Departments (Chairman: John J. Cochran;...
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    traditional teas for wives of congressmen, inviting Jessie De Priest, wife of Oscar Stanton De Priest of Chicago, the first African American elected to Congress...
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  • presidential candidate Jessie De Priest[citation needed] – Music teacher, wife of Congressman Oscar Stanton De Priest. Her presence at a White House...
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    candidate Oscar Stanton De Priest was elected to Congress, Hoover initiated a meeting for tea at the White House with his wife Jessie De Priest, as was...
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    to represent a district with an African-American majority was Oscar Stanton De Priest, whose career representing Illinois's 1st congressional district...
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    the first African-American Republican elected to the House since Oscar Stanton De Priest, last elected from Chicago's South Side in 1932. A second African-American...
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    Premier League MVP Grant Dayton, baseball player (Huntsville) Oscar Stanton De Priest, U.S. Congressman from Illinois, civil rights advocate (Florence)...
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    had invited Jessie De Priest for tea to the White House with other congressional wives. She was the wife of Oscar Stanton De Priest from Chicago, the first...
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    African Americans defeated in general elections were Republicans Oscar Stanton De Priest of Illinois and Gary Franks of Connecticut. As of 2008, two African-American...
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    post-Reconstruction African-American member of Congress. He was Republican Oscar Stanton De Priest, in Illinois's 1st congressional district (1929-1935). The district...
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    President Herbert Hoover, invited Jessie De Priest, the wife of African-American congressman Oscar De Priest, to a tea for wives of congressmen at the...
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    another black member of the U.S. Congress for 28 years; in 1928, Oscar Stanton De Priest would be elected to represent Illinois's 2nd congressional district...
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  • legislature when was elected to the Pennsylvania House in 1938. Oscar Stanton De Priest (1929-1953) Arthur Wergs Mitchell (1935-1943) William L. Dawson...
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    House of Representatives. In 1929, this streak was broken when Oscar Stanton De Priest was elected to represent the State of Illinois in the House. However...
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    Republican ticket. In 1929, he mounted a primary challenge against Oscar Stanton De Priest for U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 1st congressional...
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  • Marshall School of Law, where he graduated in 1915. His mentor was Oscar Stanton De Priest. Williams was admitted to the bar in 1916. In June 1919, married...
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