David Donald Albritton, a Morgan County native born in Danville, Alabama, on April 13, 1913, became the first Alabama native to win an Olympic track and field medal when he earned silver in the high jump at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. During the Olympic Trials on July 11, 1936, at Randall's Island in New York City, Albritton tied Cornelius Johnson for the world high jump record at 6 feet, 9¾ inches, making them the first African-Americans to set the world mark. In the Olympic high jump competition on August 2, 1936, Johnson won gold, Albritton took silver, and Delos Thurber earned bronze. Five minutes before the medal ceremony, German Chancellor Adolph Hitler and his entourage left the stadium, prompting newspaper headlines that said, “Hitler Snubs American Negro Winners.” The account that Hitler snubbed Jesse Owens is incorrect, because Owens first competed on August 3, 1936; the chancellor ignored the U.S. team that finished first, second, and third in the high jump. Albritton moved to Cleveland, Ohio, with his parents, Josephine and Peter Albritton, met Jesse Owens as a student, and remained his lifelong friend. After the Olympic Games, Albritton graduated from Ohio State University, where student athletes had working scholarships and he served as a page for the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate. He earned a B.S. degree in education, moved to Dayton, Ohio, and taught and coached at Dunbar High School, leading three teams to the Ohio State High School Championships. He later owned an insurance agency in Dayton for more than 30 years. In 1960, he was elected as a Republican to the Ohio House of Representatives from the 85th District in west central Ohio, and in 1969 he became the first African-American to chair an Ohio House committee, serving as chairman of the Interstate Cooperation Committee. He completed six terms in the Ohio General Assembly and died on May 14, 1994.