Sept 26, 1962: President John F. Kennedy appointed Leon Higginbotham as a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission in 1962, the first African American to serve on any regulatory commission.
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"A. Leon Higginbotham, Lawyer and Federal Judge." Historianspeaks, September 26, 2026. https://historianspeaks.org/blog/a-leon-higginbotham-lawyer-and-federal-judge.