Alonzo Clifton McClennan

Alonzo Clifton McClennan was the cofounder of Charleston Hospital and Training School for Nurses, which opened in 1897. He was also the second black man appointed to United States Naval Academy as a midshipman.

McClennan was born in Columbia, South Carolina onMay 1855 and was raised by his uncle after being orphaned. He began his education at the Benedict Institute in Columbia, and later became a legislative page in the South Carolina state legislature with the help of his uncle, Samuel B. Thompson, a representative. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1873, but resigned. In 1880 he graduated with honors from the Howard University College of Medicine with degrees in medicine and pharmacy, and established a practice in Augusta, Georgia. In 1884 he moved to Charleston, South Carolina.

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