[DOC] [TLE] Walter Washington, first elected mayor under DC home ... - usa today [PAR] Oct 27, 2003 ... Walter Edward Washington, the great-grandson of a slave who became the first 
elected mayor of the nation's capital since the Civil War and the first black to ... 
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first black executive director in 1961, when Attorney General... [DOC] [TLE] Thurgood Marshall - Wikipedia [PAR] Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908  January 24, 1993) was an Associate Justice of 
the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 
1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. 
Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his ... 
He was the great-grandson of a slave who was born in the modern-day... [DOC] [TLE] Nathan Bedford Forrest - Wikipedia [PAR] Nathan Forrest II (grandson)  Nathan Forrest III (great grandson); Lt. Col. Jesse 
Anderson Forrest (brother); Lt. Col. Jeffrey Edward Forrest (brother). Nathan 
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... He served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, but later distanced 
himself... [DOC] [TLE] Hundreds Mourn First Black to Lead Major City - latimes [PAR] Nov 2, 2003 ... ... Walter E. Washington, a slave's great-grandson, who became the first black 
person to lead a major U.S.. ... IN BRIEF / WASHINGTON, D.C. ... Seven years 
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Washington, the great-grandson of a slave, had impeccable credentials. ... 
homes for Washington, D.C.'s poor; and he was serving as director of... [DOC] [TLE] Walter Washington, first elected mayor under D.C. home ... [PAR] Oct 27, 2003 ... Walter Washington, first elected mayor under D.C. home rule, dies ... <p>Walter 
Edward Washington, the great-grandson of a slave who became ... p><p>He 
passed away peacefully, said Howard University Hospital spokeswoman J.J. 
Pryor. Washington, who was the first black to head a major U.S. city, had... [DOC] [TLE] Walter Washington Obituary - San Diego, California | Legacy.com [PAR] Walter Edward Washington, the great-grandson of a slave who became the first 
elected mayor of the nation ' s capital since the Civil War and the first black to. ... 
when he was Mayor, but I remember some of the things he did for us in D.C., and
... [DOC] [TLE] L. Douglas Wilder Biography - Grandson of Slaves, Entered Politics ... [PAR] Wilder became Virginia's 66th governor and the nation's first elected black 
governor. In 2004, Wilder became the first mayor of the city of Richmond, Virginia. 
... He remarked in the Washington Post: "It was stressed that however things are, 
they ... Our parents acted as if we had great opportunities compared to what they 
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Tuskegee Institute in ... Tennessee by its mayor and a citation from the mayor of 
Washington, DC. [DOC] [TLE] Hundreds In Capital Mourn Slave Descendant Turned Mayor ... [PAR] Nov 2, 2003 ... WASHINGTON -- To the sweet jazz of fellow District of Columbia native Duke 
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who became the first black person to lead a. ... Seven

Question: The great-grandson of a slave, he was the first black mayor of Washington, D.C.
Answer: Walter Washington