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The Gentleman from Ohio (Trillium Books)

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Louis Stokes used to be a giant in Ohio politics and one of the vital significant figures in the U.S. Congress in contemporary times. When he arrived in the House of Representatives as a freshman in 1969, there were only six African Americans serving. By the time he retired thirty years later, he had chaired the House Special Committee on the Kennedy and King assassinations, the House Ethics Committee all over Abscam, and the House Intelligence Committee all over Iran-Contra; he used to be also a senior member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
 
Prior to Louis Stokes’s tenure in Congress he served for a few years as a criminal defense lawyer and chairman of the Cleveland NAACP Legal Redress Committee. Some of the Supreme Court Cases he argued, the Terry “Stop and Frisk” case is thought of as probably the most twenty-five most significant cases in the court’s history. The Gentleman from Ohio chronicles this and other momentous events in the life and legacy of Ohio’s first black representative—a man who, whether in law or politics, continually fought for the principles he believed in and helped cleared the path for African Americans on the planet of mainstream American politics.
 

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