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In 1832, Born on this day, Sarah Gorham was the first woman appointed by the AME Church in 1888, to serve as a missionary to any foreign country. 1918 Charity Earley Born on this day, Charity Earley became the first Black commissioned officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942. 1881 Forty-seventh Congress (1881-83) Convened Forty-seventh Congress (1881-83) convened. Two Black congressmen, Robert Smalls, South Carolina; John R. Lynch, Mississippi. 1895 Elbert Frank Cox Elbert Frank Cox was born on this day in Evansville, Indiana. He became the first Black to hold a doctorates degree in mathematics which he received from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 1925. 2shoes,jeans,shirts