Talk:K. Leroy Irvis

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A fact from K. Leroy Irvis appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 March 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in 1977, K. Leroy Irvis of Pennsylvania became the first Black American to serve as a speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States since Reconstruction?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/March.

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Birth year - 1919, or 1916?

Although official sources seem to indicate his birth year is 1919 (for example, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives website: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/SpeakerBios/SpeakerBio.cfm?id=4), contemporaneous sources - like the Saugerties Telegraph, indicate he was born Dec 27th, 1916.

You can see this in the Jan 5, 1917 edition of the Saugerties Telegraph here: http://saugerties.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=%22irvis%22&i=f&d=01011846-12312020&m=between&ord=k1&fn=saugerties_telegraph_usa_new_york_saugerties_19170105_english_3&df=1&dt=8. Blarneystone365 (talk) 13:38, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]