He Earned 11 Degrees And Practiced Law Until 107 Years Old

Описание: John Morton-Finney was born June 25, 1889, in Uniontown, Kentucky, to a former slave father and a free mother. When his mother died at age 14, he moved to Missouri and walked 12 miles to school daily. At 22, he joined the U.S. Army's 24th Infantry Regiment—the Buffalo Soldiers—serving in the Philippines from 1911-1914. Military records show he earned the rank of sergeant but was denied an officer's commission due to racial discrimination. He served again in WWI in France. After the war, he became a lifelong scholar, earning 11 academic degrees: bachelor's degrees from Lincoln College (1920), Iowa State (1922), and Butler University (1965); master's degrees in education (1925) and French (1933) from Indiana University; and five law degrees from Lincoln College (1935), Indiana Law School (1944), IU School of Law (1946), Martin University (1995), plus doctoral degrees. He taught languages at Crispus Attucks High School for 47 years, spoke six languages fluently, and was inducted into the National Bar Association Hall of Fame at age 102 in 1991. He retired from practicing law on his 107th birthday in 1996, believed to be the oldest practicing attorney in U.S. history. He died January 28, 1998, at 108—the last surviving Buffalo Soldier. This is Black excellence personified.
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