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First Woman/First Black Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders

Joycelyn Elders, the former United States Surgeon General was born Minnie Lee Jones in Schaal, Arkansas on August 13, 1933, to Curtis and Hailer Jones; she added the name Joycelyn when she was in college.

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