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First African American representative to chair a committee in Congress born

April 26, 1883 - November 9, 1970 (87)

William Levi DawsonWilliam Levi Dawson was born in Albany, Georgia. He was the first African American to serve as the chairman of a regular congressional committee serving as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments in the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses.

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