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Llewellyn Scott

1892–1978

United States

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Llewellyn J. Scott, TOSF (1892 – December 17, 1978) was an American Catholic activist who founded the St. Martin de Porres Hospice in Washington, D.C. in 1935. He was the first African American to start a Catholic Worker House and was a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis.

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