died at 10 years of age; and
WHEREAS, In 1847, Frederick Douglass cofounded the North
Star, an antislavery newspaper; and
WHEREAS, In 1864, Frederick Douglass served as an advisor to
President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War; and
WHEREAS, In 1874, Frederick Douglass was appointed president
of the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company, a bank chartered by
the Congress of the United States to safeguard the savings of
African-American Civil War veterans and former slaves; and
WHEREAS, Appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes as the
United States Marshal for the District of Columbia in 1877,
Frederick Douglass became the first African American to receive
United States Senate confirmation for a presidential
appointment; and
WHEREAS, Frederick Douglass authored three books, including
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
in 1845, My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855 and Life and Times of
Frederick Douglass in 1881; and
WHEREAS, After the death of Anna Murray Douglass in 1882,
Frederick Douglass married Helen Pitts in 1884; and
WHEREAS, In 1889, President Benjamin Harrison appointed
Frederick Douglass as the United States Minister to Haiti; and
WHEREAS, Frederick Douglass delivered his last public lecture
at West Chester University on February 1, 1895; and
WHEREAS, Frederick Douglass delivered his final speech at a
meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, DC, on
February 20, 1895 and died at 77 years of age later that day;
and
WHEREAS, The Washington, DC, home of Frederick Douglass was
added to the National Park Service system on September 5, 1962,
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