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Rock, John Swett

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Rock, John Swett (1825–1866)

US lawyer, teacher, and physician. Presented as a potential US Supreme Court lawyer by Senator Charles Sumner in 1865 before Chief Justice Salmon P Chase, he became the first African-American to be so accredited. Proficient in Greek and Latin, he lectured around the country, refuting the racist theory that blacks were inferior to whites.

He was born in Salem, New Jersey. A public school teacher 1844–48, he studied dentistry under Dr Harbert Hubbard and began practising in Philadelphia in 1851, where he designed prize-winning false teeth. In 1852 he graduated from the American Medical College and then moved his dental practice to Boston. Poor health caused him to study law and he became a justice of the peace in 1861.



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