Raynors HCA 2016-10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/21/2016
Document Signed, “B(lanche) K. Bruce, Land deed. Washington, D.C. August 28, 1890. Signature panel 8¼ x 3½ in., overall dimensions 8¼ x 14 in. Blanche Bruce was the first full-term African American to serve in the U.S. Senate, 1875-1881. He was then appointed by President James Garfield as Register of the U.S. Treasury in 1881. He later served as the Washington, D.C. Recorder of Deeds (a position earlier held by Frederick Douglass), 1890-1893 and again as Register of the Treasury from 1897 until his death in 1898.
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