By CAROLYN THOMPSON
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet, was posthumously admitted Friday to the New York State Bar, an achievement denied him in life because he was Native American.
His admission inside a ceremonial courtroom in Buffalo 130 years after his death followed a yearslong effort by his…
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