When You Can Be A Judge, But Not A Citizen

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Macon B. Allen

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In 1848, Macon Bolling Allen, though not allowed to be a citizen of the United States at the time, became the first African-American judge when he qualified as a justice of the peace in what state?

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Hint: After the Civil War, Allen moved to Charleston, South Carolina, and was elected as a probate judge there.

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