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This bill designates the Charlestown District courthouse in Boston as the George Lewis Ruffin Courthouse, honoring a significant historical figure in African American legal history. George Lewis Ruffin was a pioneering African American who achieved several groundbreaking milestones, including being the first African American to graduate from Harvard Law School, the first to serve on the Boston City Council, the first African American elected to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1870, and most notably, the first African American judge in the United States when he was appointed to the Charlestown District Court in 1883. The bill requires the division of capital asset management and maintenance to erect and maintain appropriate markers displaying the new courthouse name, commemorating Ruffin's important contributions to the judiciary, legal profession, and the city of Boston.

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https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H1761