Henry A. Rucker
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Henry A. Rucker
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Henry Allen Rucker was an African American entrepreneur and politician. Born into slavery, he was able to achieve significant wealth and political power within the Republican Party. From 1897 to 1911 — the administrations of McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft, all Republicans — he was the appointed head of federal tax collections for the state of Georgia. Despite serving at the nadir of race relations in Atlanta, Rucker was one of the three most powerful Black politicians in Georgia, alongside Judson
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_A._Rucker
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2018-02-01T23:06:47Z
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2024-09-05T02:15:53Z
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