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William H. Lewis, one of 바카라사이트 first African-Americans to hold high office, as US assistant attorney general from 1911 to 1913, James Avery, 바카라사이트 actor who starred as Philip Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and also appeared in Iron Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Dr. Dolittle 2, and Pamela E. Bridgewater, a diplomat who has served as US ambassador to Jamaica, Ghana and Benin, all attended Virginia State.
