Image: Alexander Lucius Twilight (daguerrotype)

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Description: 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.
Title: Alexander Lucius Twilight (daguerrotype)
Credit: Collection of the Orleans County Grammar Schools
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