Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca from western New York, never took no for an answer. At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of ...
Kathleen Sweet, president of the New York State Bar Association, issued a public statement on Friday on the posthumous admission of Ely S. Parker to the New York Bar. Sweet’s statement followed last ...
BUFFALO, N.Y.(AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet, was posthumously admitted Friday to the New York State Bar, an ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The New York Appellate Division, Fourth Department, granted posthumous bar admission to Ely Parker. The celebration took place in a ceremonial courtroom in downtown Buffalo. Court ...
Why it took Seneca leader and Civil War general Ely S. Parker 176 years to be admitted to the NY bar
Ely Parker’s posthumous admission is the eighth in US legal history, according to Browning. Previous cases involved Asian American and Black American aspiring attorneys from the 19th and early 20th ...
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