BLANCHE K. BRUCE SIGNED Oct 1890 1st Black US Senator & Auto On US Currency
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| Management number | 17021277 | Release Date | 2025/10/06 | List Price | $108.30 | Model Number | 17021277 | ||
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BLANCHE K. BRUCE - DEED SIGNED October 9, 1890
BLANCHE K. BRUCE
The first Black American to have his signature printed on US currency signs here as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia.
Deed signed: "B. K. Bruce" as Recorder of Deeds, 5 pages, 3½x8½ folded, 8½x14 open-flat. District of Columbia, 1890 . He signs approval of a document transferring title a specified lot of land in the District.
Blanche Kelso Bruce (1841-1898), the son of a white Virginian planter and a black slave, was educated and emancipated by his father. Refused for Civil War service, he worked as a printer's assistant and steamboat porter, attended Oberlin College, and founded a school for black youths in Hannibal, Missouri. During Reconstruction, he became a wealthy landowner in the Mississippi Delta, and was elected to several local offices, including Sheriff of Bolivar County. In 1874 he was elected to the US Senate, becoming the first African-American to serve a full term there.
| Category | Vintage & collectibles > Paper ephemera |
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