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Oscar Stanton De Priest
American politician and civil rights advocate (1871–1951)
Oscar Stanton De Priest (March 9, 1871 – May 12, 1951) was an American politician and civil rights advocate from Chicago.
A member of the IllinoisRepublican Party, he served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois's 1st congressional district from 1929 to 1935. He was the first African American to be elected to Congress in the 20th century. During his three terms, he was the only African American serving in Congress.
He was also the first African-American U.S. Representative from outside the southern states.
Born in Alabama to freedmen parents, De Priest was raised in Dayton, Ohio.
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He studied business and made a fortune in Chicago as a contractor, and in real estate and the stock market before the Crash. A successful local politician, he was elected an alderman to the Chicago City Council in 1914, the first African American to hold that office.
In Congress in the early 1930s, he spoke out agai