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1867 --- 1st woman in the US to become a certified dentist.
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1869 ---1st Black U.S. diplomat, minister-resident to Haiti.
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Arabella Mansfield
1869 --- 1st woman lawyer. A year later, Ada H. Kepley, of Illinois, graduates from the Union College of Law in Chicago. She is the first woman lawyer to graduate from a law school.
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Jefferson Long
1870 --- 1st black elected to U.S. House of Representatives, Georgia.
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Hiram Revels
1870 --- 1st black US Senator. He completed the term of Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, who had resigned to become president of the Confederacy.
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Lucy Walker
1871 --- 1st woman to successfully climb the Matterhorn in Switzerland.
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1872 --- 1st woman to run for President of the US.
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Herbert Hoover
1874 --- 1st US President born west of the Mississippi.
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Mary Baker Eddy
1879 --- 1st and only American woman to found a lasting American-based religion- The Church of Christ (Scientist).
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1879 --- 1st female lawyer to plead a case before the US Supreme Court.
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Mary Mahoney
1879 --- 1st black woman to study and work as a professionally trained nurse.
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Moses Fleetwood Walker
1884 --- 1st black baseball player in the major leagues.
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Grover Cleveland
1886 --- 1st President married inside the White House.
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Wilhelm Steinitz
1886 --- world's 1st chess champion.
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Susanna M. Salter
1887 --- 1st woman US mayor. (Argonia, KS). She won by a two-thirds majority but didn't even know she was in the running until she went into the voting booth. Her name was submitted by the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She died at the age of 101 in 1961.
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