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Joshua Packwood
Joshua Packwood, at the age of 22, became the first white valedictorian of Morehouse College, a historically black college, in 2008.
Packwood was a Rhodes Scholar finalist and graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics with a perfect 4.0 grade point average. Morehouse's president, Robert Franklin, stated in his February 2008 inauguration speech that Packwood "happens to be Euro-American and brings much-appreciated diversity to our campus."
In May 2008, NBC Nightly News debuted a segment on Packwood
He was educated at Packwood Haugh School and Eton College, where he was a King's Scholar. He was called up for war service in 1943 and joined the Royal Artillery, but because of training accident he never saw action. he was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1945, and was posted to Singapore and then Burma before being demobilised in 1947 with the rank of captain. He then read history and law at Trinity College, Cambridge, before being called to the bar by Inner Temple in 1951.
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