Robert T. Teamoh Explained

Office:Massachusetts House of Representatives
Term Start:1894
Term End:1895
Successor:William L. Reed
Birth Date:25 March 1864
Death Place:Boston, Massachusetts
Spouse:Julia Jackson
Children:Robert Shaw Teamoh
Party:Republican

Robert Thomas Teamoh (March 25, 1864 - 1912) was a newspaper reporter for The Boston Globe and state legislator in Massachusetts.[1] [2] [3] He was the nephew of Virginia state senator George Teamoh.[4]

Personal life

Teamoh was born in Massachusetts to parents Thomas and Margaret Patterson Teamoh and lived in Brookline.[5] In 1894 he married Julia Jackson.[6]

Career

Teamoh was a known Freemason and worked for the Boston Globe for over 20 years.[7] He is believed to be the first African American reporter for a white newspaper in Boston.[8]

He represented Ward 9 of the 1894 Massachusetts legislature. He was part of a delegation of legislators that visited Virginia. Charles Triplett O'Ferrall, Virginia's governor, refused the meet with the delegation while Teamoh was part of it so he waited outside. This caused some outrage and protest in Massachusetts.[9] Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin criticized Teamoh in her newspaper, Woman's Era, for "servile complicity" toward O'Ferrall.[10]

He was succeeded in office by William L. Reed.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: A Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators. February 3, 1895. A.M. Bridgman.. Google Books.
  2. Web site: The Journal of the Senate. Massachusetts General Court. Senate. February 3, 1895. Google Books.
  3. Web site: Robert T Teamoh, editor and reporter, buried in Portsmouth RI. June 24, 1912. 9. newspapers.com.
  4. Teamoh, George. God Made Man, Man Made the Slave. Edited by F.N. Boney, Richard L. Hume and Rafia Zafar. Macon, GA: Mercer UP, 1990. 187.
  5. Web site: Robert T Teamoh funeral. June 25, 1912. 9. newspapers.com.
  6. Web site: Emory Women Writers Resource Project : The Woman's Era, Volume 1 : Announcement 0. womenwriters.digitalscholarship.emory.edu.
  7. News: June 24, 1912. Funeral of R. T. Teamoh. The Boston Globe.
  8. Book: Hayden, Robert C. . African-Americans in Boston : more than 350 years . Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston . 1991 . 0-89073-083-0 . Boston . 113 . 25150424.
  9. Book: Greenidge, Kerri K.. Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter. November 19, 2019. Liveright Publishing. 9781631495359. Google Books.
  10. Book: Schneider, Mark R. . Boston confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920 . 2019 . Northeastern University Press . Zebulon V. Miletsky . 978-1-55553-884-2 . Boston . 98 . 1102419996.

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