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Arthur Eve

Arthur O. Eve (23 March 1933-) was a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly from 1967 to 2002 and the first Dominican-American elected to public office in the United States.

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Arthur O. Eve was born in New York City, New York on 23 March 1933 to an immigrant father from the Dominican Republic, and he was raised in Jim Crow-era Florida before moving to Buffalo in 1953. He served as a US Army corporal from 1953 to 1955 and worked at a Chevrolet plant in Buffalo before becoming an independent activist within the Democratic Party. This enabled him to be elected to the State Assembly in 1966, and he rose to prominence due to his civil rights activism, especially during the 1971 Attica Prison riot. Also during the 1970s, he became an Episcopalian deacon. After retiring from politics in 2002, he became an evangelist.

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