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Show Virginia's Colored Representative, . John Mercer Langston has long been' prominent among the colored people of 11 the country; but is nowVtnoreso than ' ever, as the majority in congress have awarded him the seat for the Fourth dis- tnct or Virginia, . after one of the longest contests ' ' of that kind ever known. "Colored" "Color-ed" is the only word that de-, de-, scribes Mr. Lang-. Lang-. ston, for his mother mo-ther had Indian, 1 negro and Aryan blood in her veins, and his father, Ralph J. u. lanqston. Qnarles, was a white man of first rate Virginia stock. John M. was bom in 1829 in Louisa comity, Va., and he and his two brothers were fairly well provided provid-ed for by their father, who died in 1834. He was taken to Ohio and educated, was graduated from Oberlin college in 1853, and was the first colored man admitted to the practice of law in the United States. His subsequent career is tolera? bly well known, especially his experience experi-ence as United States minister to Hayti, and his quarrel with Mahone in Virginia, Virgin-ia, which led to his running as an independent inde-pendent candidate for congress. |