Menard, John Willis

Menard, John Willis

▪ American journalist
born April 3, 1838, Kaskaskia, Ill., U.S.
died Oct. 8, 1893, Washington, D.C.

      first black elected to the U.S. Congress, who was denied his seat by that body.

      During the Civil War (1861–65) he served as a clerk in the U.S. Department of the Interior. In 1865 he moved to New Orleans, where he became active in the Republican Party, serving as inspector of customs and later as a commissioner of streets. He also published a newspaper, The Free South, later named The Radical Standard. Elected to Congress from Louisiana in 1868 to fill an unexpired term, Menard failed to overcome an election challenge by the loser, and Congress refused to seat either man. In 1871 he moved to Florida, where he was again active in the Republican Party and published the Island City News in Jacksonville.

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