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The Herald
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia
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Rep. Claude I. Bakewell (R-MO) appoints Ridgely C. Bennett Jr., a young Black man from St. Louis, to West Point; he is the second from the city after Charles L. Smith (1944). Bakewell also appoints a Black man to Capitol Police. Bennett graduated Vashon High and attends Stowe Teachers College.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—(NNPA).—Representative Claude I. Bakewell, Republican, of Missouri, has appointed a colored youth to the United States Military Academy and a colored man to the Capitol Police.
His appointee to West Point is Ridgely C. Bennett, Jr., of 3026 Rutger street, St. Louis. The lad is a graduate of Vashon High School, St. Louis, and is at present attending Stowe Teachers College in that city. His father is a chemist in St. Louis. A brother is attending Howard University here.
Young Bennett is the second colored youth to be appointed to West Point from St. Louis. The other was Charles L. Smith who was admitted to the Military Academy July 1, 1944.
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St. Louis, Missouri
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Representative Claude I. Bakewell, Republican of Missouri, appointed Ridgely C. Bennett, Jr., of 3026 Rutger street, St. Louis, a graduate of Vashon High School and current student at Stowe Teachers College, to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Bennett's father is a chemist in St. Louis, and his brother attends Howard University. Bennett is the second colored youth from St. Louis appointed to West Point, following Charles L. Smith admitted July 1, 1944. Bakewell also appointed a colored man to the Capitol Police.