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Alexi Giannoulias @ILSecOfState
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams was an African American physician from Chicago in the 1880s. Williams is known for performing the world’s first open heart surgery. This letter from Williams to the Governor thanks him for the appointment to the Board of Health. #ILSOS #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/ip3ouHA4jz — PolitiTweet.org