File:Alexander Lucius Twilight (daguerrotype).jpg
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English: Photographic portrait of Alexander Lucius Twilight (1795–1857), American educator, politician, and minister. Twilight was the first African-American to earn a college degree from an American university (Middlebury College, 1823), as well as the first African-American elected to serve in a state legislature. He was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1836. Twilight was also a minister and secondary school principal, building Athenian Hall at the Orleans County Grammar Schools. |
| Date | before 1857 |
| Source | Collection of the Orleans County Grammar Schools |
| Author | Unknown author |
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| 2006-12-07 22:17 | 216×250× (77744 bytes) | GearedBull | Photographic portrait of Alexander Twilight (1795–1857) |
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| current | 05:31, 26 August 2020 | | 690 × 822 (249 KB) | Opencooper | Erase frame |
| 05:31, 26 August 2020 |  | 690 × 822 (689 KB) | Opencooper | higher res from https://oldstonehousemuseum.org/twilight-bio/ | |
| 22:53, 23 June 2017 |  | 216 × 250 (76 KB) | Libertybison | Transferred from en.wikipedia |
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