Person
Jean Murrell Capers
- Work
- Taught elementary and high school health and physical education in Cleveland schools before becoming an attorney; later an assistant Cleveland police prosecutor, 1945-1949
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- Public service
- Cleveland City Council member, 1949-1959, the first African American elected to the council; later Ohio assistant attorney general and a Cleveland Municipal Court judge, appointed 1977, retiring in 1986
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- Education
- Graduated from Western Reserve University in 1932 and later from Cleveland Law School, becoming an attorney in 1945
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- Civic
- Founded the Black Women's Forum in 1968; member of the Central Welfare Association and the National Council of Negro Women
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- Profile 4 entries
- On the ballot 0 entries
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- Elections 1 entry Ran as the Independent candidate for Ohio's 11th District in 1998, taking 6.6 percent (9,477 votes) per the race record's certified count.
- Endorsements given Not yet researched
- Sources 4 entries
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Elections
| Race | Party | Result | Votes | Share |
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| U.S. Representative, Ohio's 11th District (1998) | Independent | Lost | 9,477 | 6.6% |
Endorsements
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Sources
Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: Jean Murrell Capers
Every URL on this page, once each.
- Federal Elections 98 (PDF, the entire publication; Ohio U.S. House results on printed pages 99-103); compiled from state elections offices · Federal Election Commission · accessed 2026-09-25
- Federal Elections 98 · Federal Election Commission · accessed 2026-09-25
- Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 3, 1998 (Ohio, U.S. Representative) · Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · accessed 2026-09-25
- Jean Murrell Capers · Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-25
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