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Trade Card - F. Fishblate....Clothing/Hats...comical of tailor measuring a rotund man...230 South Elm Street, Greensboro, North Carolina... Verso is full ad Members of Temple of Israel became an integral part of Wilmington’s civic leadership and played a supporting role in the most infamous episode in the city’s history. Sol Fishblate came to Wilmington in 1869 from Fayetteville, North Carolina, leaving a failed business in his wake. Born in New York to German Jewish immigrants in 1843, Fishblate quickly got involved in Wilmington’s city politics. In 1873, he was elected alderman, the first Jew to be elected to local office in North Carolina. In 1878, Fishblate was elected mayor of Wilmington, serving three years. After his term, he was elected once again as an alderman in the 1880s, along with another member of Temple of Israel, Solomon Bear. Fishblate was elected mayor once again in 1891. Fishblate was an ardent Democrat, and even represented North Carolina at a national Democratic Party Committee meeting in New York in 1892. According to a New York Times account of the meeting, Fishblate promised his colleagues that North Carolina would support the Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland for president in November.

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Arc.MS.56, Box 20, Folder 11