George French Ecton

George French Ecton (c. 1846 – September 19, 1929) was a civil rights activist and the second African American state legislator in Illinois.He was born a slave in Winchester, Kentucky, in about 1846 to Antonio Ecton and Martha George.He also began to attend night school taught by Luella Brown.[2] On October 28, 1873, he moved to Chicago and took charge of the dining room at the Hotel Woodruff.[3] He held his job as a waitor until being elected to the Illinois General Assembly,[1] serving from 1887 to 1889.
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