Blanche Bruce – signed document as Recorder of Deeds. The deed, dated 8/20/1890, was for a land transfer from Charles Halpine to Harold White. Bruce signed as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia.
Condition. Generally very good to fine. The four pages, two legal sheets, are clean with tears starting at a couple fold lines. Bruce’s signature is on the pre-printed filing panel of the back page.
Bruce was born into slavery but after the War was elected by Mississippi’s reconstruction legislature to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American to serve a full term in the Senate. (Mississippi’s Hiram Revels was the first African American to enter the Senate but he only filled a vacancy, serving a partial term.) At one time, he presided over the Senate, becoming the first African American to do so. He advocated not only for African Americans but more rights for Native Americans and he stood against the governments exclusion policies of Chinese.
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Blanche Bruce – signed document as Recorder of Deeds. The deed, dated 8/20/1890, was for a land transfer from Charles Halpine to Harold White. Bruce signed as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia.
Condition. Generally very good to fine. The four pages, two legal sheets, are clean with tears starting at a couple fold lines. Bruce’s signature is on the pre-printed filing panel of the back page.
Bruce was born into slavery but after the War was elected by Mississippi’s reconstruction legislature to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American to serve a full term in the Senate. (Mississippi’s Hiram Revels was the first African American to enter the Senate but he only filled a vacancy, serving a partial term.) At one time, he presided over the Senate, becoming the first African American to do so. He advocated not only for African Americans but more rights for Native Americans and he stood against the governments exclusion policies of Chinese.
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