MAHONEY, CHARLES H.

MAHONEY, CHARLES H. Born in Decatur, Michigan in 1886, Charles H. Mahoney was educated at Fisk University and, later, at the University of Michigan, where he was awarded a degree in law. A practicing attorney for thirty years, Mahoney is best known as the first black to occupy a permanent seat in the United States delegation to the United Nations. He died in 1966.