If I am correct he is related to Langston Hughes. Jane Steele.

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Tarter, Brent (LVA)" <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jun 10, 2008 2:09 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] John Mercer Langston
>
>This first paragraph in the notice about Langston that has begun this
>conversation reads:
>
>"LOUISA, Va. -- Planted in the lawn at the courthouse on West Main
>Street here is a gray historical marker that draws little attention. It
>proudly proclaims that the country's first black elected official was
>native son John Mercer Langston, born in this central Virginia county,
>the son of a wealthy white planter and an emancipated slave of Indian
>and black ancestry."
>
>I think that there's merely a keyboarding mistake at fault here in the
>form of an erroneous "r." The second sentence should probably begin, "It
>proudly proclaims that the county's first black elected official," not
>the "country's."
>
>$0.02 worth from
>
>Brent Tarter
>The Library of Virginia
>[log in to unmask]
>
>Please visit the Library of Virginia's Web site at
>http://www.lva.virginia.gov
>
>______________________________________
>To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at
>http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html


Lillian Jane Steele

______________________________________
To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at
http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html