Richmond City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Biographies.....Ruffin, George Lewis 1834 - 1885
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RUFFIN, George Lewis, lawyer, b. in Richmond, Va., 16 Dec., 1834; d. in Boston,
Mass., 19 Nov 1885. He was of African descent but of free parentage, and was
educated at the public schools in Boston. He became a barber, studied law, and
after graduation at Harvard in 1869 practised with success in Boston, served in
the legislature as a Republican, and was appointed by Gov. Benjamin F. Butler
judge of the municipal court in the Charlestown district in 1883, being the only
colored justice that held office in New England.

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Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Biography, Vol. V Pickering-Sumter; 1900

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