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Wentworth Cheswell is said to be the first African-American to be elected to office in America. He was one quarter Black and three quarters White. He was elected as town constable of Newmarket, New Hampshire, in 1768 and served in some government position thereafter until his death â well, to be precise, every year but one.
President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the first African-American justice, Thurgood Marshall, to the US Supreme Court in 1967. Justice Marshall was a prominent civil rights att â¦ orney before ascending to the bench, and was best known as lead counsel in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).