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[[underlined]] Dr. Carl T. Rowan [[/underlined]]

Carl T. Rowan was born in Ravenscroft, Tennessee, on August 11, 1825. He studied for one year at Tennessee State University in Nashville before joining the U.S. Navy in which he served three years during World War II. At age 19, he became one of the first fifteen Negroes in the Nation's history to become an Officer in the U.S. Navy.

Dr. Rowan attended Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, and Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, where he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics. At the University of Minnesota, he was awarded the master's degree in journalism in 1948. 

His newspaper career began with an assignment with the Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper in 1948. Later, the same year, he joined the staff of the Minneapolis Tribune where he remained until February 1961 when he was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. 

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