Word: severiano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...N.A.A.C.P.'s Ivy correctly states that other Negroes have held Cabinet posts in France. TIME should have said that Minister Houphouet-Boigny is the first West African Negro to achieve Cabinet rank. Two French Negroes held major Cabinet offices before him: Cuban-born Severiano de Heredia, who became a French citizen, Mayor of Paris and Minister of Public Works, 1887; Martinique-born Henri Lémery, who was Minister of Justice...