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Francis Lewis Cardozo (February 1, 1836 – July 22, 1903) was an American clergyman, politician, and educator. When elected in South Carolina as Secretary of State in 1868, he was the first African American to hold a statewide office in the United States.
Francis Lewis Cardozo (Charleston, 1º gennaio 1836 – Washington, 22 luglio 1903) è stato un politico e religioso statunitense. È stato il primo afroamericano a ricoprire una carica politica nazionale negli Stati Uniti d'America
4 giu 2024 · Francis Lewis Cardozo was a minister, educator, and politician who was born free in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 1, 1836. Cardozo was of mixed ancestry, as his father, Isaac Nunez Cardozo, was a Sephardic Jew, and his mother, Lydia Williams Weston, was a free woman of color.
25 gen 2018 · Soon after he founded the school in Charleston, Cardozo was elected the Secretary of State of South Carolina. He was the first African American to be elected to a state office. Cardozo also served as the principal of an African American high school in Washington, DC.
15 apr 2016 · Cardozo, Francis Lewis. January 1, 1836–July 22, 1903. Article. As a delegate to the 1868 constitutional convention, he served as chair of the education committee and advocated a statewide system of integrated public education.
6 mar 2017 · When Francis Lewis Cardozo was elected as South Carolina’s secretary of state in 1868, he became the first Black American to be elected to a political position in the state. His work as a clergyman, educator, and politician allowed him to fight for the rights of Black Americans during the Reconstruction period.
A Brief Moment in the Sun is the first scholarly biography of Francis Lewis Cardozo, one of the most talented and influential African Americans to hold elected office in the South between Reconstruction and the civil rights era.
