Robert Heberton Terrell | |
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| Born | November 27, 1857 Orange, Virginia, US |
| Died | December 20, 1925 (aged 68) |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Howard University School of Law |
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| Children | 5 (including one adopted and three died in infancy) |
Robert Heberton Terrell (November 27, 1857 – December 20, 1925) was an attorney and the second African American to serve as a justice of the peace in Washington, DC. In 1911 he was appointed as a judge to the District of Columbia Municipal Court by President William Howard Taft; he was one of four African-American men appointed to high office and considered his "Black Cabinet". He was reappointed as judge under succeeding administrations, including that of Democrat Woodrow Wilson.