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Thomas Mundy Peterson was the first Black voter in the United States under the Fifteenth Amendment, casting his vote in an election held in Perth Amboy on March 31, 1870. He was remembered as a devoted churchman and good citizen, served as a member of a committee to revise the city charter, and received the Abraham Lincoln gold medallion. He was born on Oct. 6, 1824, and died on Feb. 4, 1904. His wife, Daphne Peterson, was born on Oct. 2, 1820, and died on Nov. 23, 1891.
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Perth Amboy, New Jersey · United States
