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|image=Thomas Mundy Peterson by William R. Tobias.jpg
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|title=[[Thomas Mundy Peterson]]
|texttitle=Thomas Mundy Peterson
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'''[[Thomas Mundy Peterson]]''' (October 6, 1824 – February 4, 1904) was a resident of [[Perth Amboy, New Jersey]], who has been claimed to be the first [[African Americans|African American]] to vote in an election under the provisions of the [[Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|15th Amendment]] to the [[Constitution of the United States]]. His vote was cast on March 31, 1870; the Amendment had been ratified almost two months earlier, on February 3, but was only officially certified by Secretary of State [[Hamilton Fish]] on March 30. To honor him as the first African-American voter after the passage of the 15th Amendment, in 1884, the citizens of Perth Amboy raised $70 (${{<!--
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      )
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       }}.</span><!--
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         or ( 1884 = {{CURRENTYEAR}} )
        )
        and ( {{Inflation/year|US}} <= {{Inflation/year|US}} )
       )
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    --> {{Separated entries|separator=,&#32;|conjunction=&#32;and&#32;
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      -->}}<!--
     -->}}.</span><!--
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| AT = 2018
| AU = 2022
| AU-road  = 2018
| BD = 2023
| BE = 2020
| BR = 2020
| CA = 2023
| CH = 2021 
| CL = 2024
| CN = 2023
| DE = 2021
| DK = 2022
| EG = 2018
| ES = 2022
| EU = 2023
| FI = 2023
| FR = 2022
| GR = 2007
| HK = 2020
| ID = 2007
| IL = 2021
| IN = 2023
| IR = 1398
| IS = 2020
| IT = 2020
| JP = 2019
| KRW = 2017
| MX = 2007
| NL = 2016
| NO = 2017
| NZ = 2024
| PE = 2017
| PH = 2021
| PK = 2021
| PL = 2021
| PT = 2007
| RU = 2023
| SE = 2023
| SG = 2022
| TEST = 2012
| TH = 2020
| TR = 2021
| TW = 2021
| UK|GBP = 2023
| UKGDP
| UK-GDP
| UK-CAP = 2023
| US|USD = 2024
| USGDP
| US-GDP
| US-CAP = 2023
| VN = 2022
| ZAR = 2018
| ERR = <span class="error">Error: no index specified when using {{tl|Inflation/year}}.{{main other|[[Category:Pages with errors in inflation template]]}}</span>
|#default  = <span class="error">Error: undefined index "US" when using {{tl|Inflation/year}}.{{main other|[[Category:Pages with errors in inflation template]]}}</span>
}} dollars) to award him with a medal, consisting of a gold bar from which a medallion depicting [[Abraham Lincoln]] was hung. This photograph shows Peterson in 1884, wearing his medal.

|credit=Photograph credit: William R. Tobias; restored by [[User:Adam Cuerden|Adam Cuerden]]
}}<noinclude>[[Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day {{#time:F Y|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}]]

== See also ==
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