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'{{Infobox person | name = George Boyer Vashon | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1824|07|25}} | birth_place = [[Carlisle, Pennsylvania]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1878|10|05|1824|07|25}} | death_place = Mississippi | death_cause = [[Yellow Fever]]<ref name=blackpast /> | nationality = American | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''George Boyer Vashon''' (July 25, 1824–October 5, 1878) was an American scholar, poet and [[abolitionist]]. He was the first African-American graduate of [[Oberlin College]] in [[Ohio]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Baumann|first=Roland M.|title=Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College|year=2010|publisher=Ohio University Press|isbn=978-0821418871}}</ref> He was the first practicing African-American lawyer in the state of New York and was posthumously admitted to the [[Pennsylvania Bar]] in 2010,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.duanemorris.com/pressreleases/african_american_legal_scholar_george_vashon_admitted_pa_bar_3839.html|title=After 163 Years, African-American Legal Scholar and Abolitionist George B. Vashon to Be Admitted to Pennsylvania Bar|date=13 October 2010|publisher=Duane Morris|accessdate=16 April 2016}}</ref> 163 years after being denied the right to practice in the state due to his race, first in 1847 and again in 1868.<ref name=blackpast /> In 1853, he was a prominent attendee of the radical abolitionist National African American Convention in Rochester, New York. His was one of 5 names attached to the address of the convention to the people of the United States published under the title, ''The Claims of Our Common Cause'', along with [[Frederick Douglass]], [[James Monroe Whitfield]], [[Henry O. Wagoner]], and [[Amos Noë Freeman]].<ref>Douglass, Frederick. Frederick Douglass: Selected speeches and writings. Chicago Review Press, 2000. p260-271</ref> In the 1870s he lived and worked for a time in Washington, DC where he also taught young African-Americans at a night school there.<ref>Simmons, William J., and Henry McNeal Turner. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. GM Rewell & Company, 1887. p474-480</ref> [[Vashon High School]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri]] is named for Vashon and his son, John Boyer Vashon.AND THEY GOT HELLA BUCKETS IN BASKETBALL TOO! ==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=blackpast>{{cite web|url=http://www.blackpast.org/aah/vashon-george-b-1824-1878|title=Vashon, George B. (1824-1878)|last=Blue|first=Christopher T.|publisher=BlackPast.org|accessdate=16 April 2016}}</ref> }} {{US-bio-stub}} [[Category:1824 births]] [[Category:1878 deaths]] [[Category:Oberlin College alumni]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Vashon, George Boyer}}'