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| | Joycelyn Elders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Minnie Joycelyn Elders (born August 13, 1933) was the United States Surgeon General from September 8, 1993 to December 31, 1994, most famous for her outspokenness on sensitive issues of public health. |
 | | Elders then received a National Institutes of Health career development award, also serving as assistant professor in pediatrics at the University of Arkansas Medical Center from 1967. |
 | | In 1993 after Clinton was elected president, he appointed her United States surgeon general, making her the first African American, and the second woman, to hold the position. |
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