William Byron Rumford was a pharmacist and prominent politician. Rumford served as the first black elected to a state public office in Northern California. Rumford was born on February 2, 1908, in Courtland, Arizona, which at the time was a mining town. His father left the family when Rumford was still a young boy. Rumford […]
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