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    Douglas Wilder

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  2. Lawrence Douglas Wilder (born January 17, 1931) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 66th governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. He was the first African American to serve as governor of a U.S. state since the Reconstruction era, and the first African American ever elected as governor. [a] He is currently a professor at the ...

    • 1951–1953
  3. Apr 24, 2024 · Andrew Cain. Eunice Wilder, who was Richmond’s city treasurer for more than 25 years and the former wife of L. Douglas Wilder, died Sunday at 83 after a brief illness. In late 1992,...

  4. Jan 27, 2022 · Eunice Montgomery Wilder, the former Richmond city treasurer who held the post for 25 years, has died after a brief illness, her family reported. The Philadelphia native and ex-wife of former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, died Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. She was 83.

  5. Jul 22, 2004 · Wilder also met Eunice Montgomery during his days as a student, and the two married on October 11, 1958. Wilder opened his law firm, which would become Wilder, Gregory & Associates, in 1961, and was soon asked by Spottswood Robinson, who had worked on the Brown v. Board of Education case, to take on some of his excess workload.

  6. Lawrence Douglas Wilder was born on January 17, 1931, in Richmond, Virginia. The grandson of slaves, he was named after abolitionist-orator Frederick Douglass and poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Wilder attended Richmond's racially segregated public schools—George Mason Elementary and Armstrong High School. In 1951, he graduated from Virginia Union ...

  7. May 3, 2024 · He married Eunice Montgomery on October 11, 1958. The couple had three children but later divorced. General Assembly. Doug Wilder Addresses the Senate. In 1969, Wilder ran for the Senate of Virginia and won a plurality of the vote in a three-way race against two white candidates.

  8. Feb 16, 2023 · L. Douglas Wilder is sworn in as the 66th Governor of Virginia during a ceremony outside the Capitol in Richmond Saturday January 13, 1990. Wilder became the first elected black Governor of the ...

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