Alexander Twilight
Alexander Twilight became the first African American graduate of an American college when graduated Middlebury College in 1823. He was principal of Orleans County Grammar School as well as architect of school buildings. Elected to the Vermont legislature in 1836 he became the first African American in the U.S. to hold such a position.
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