Raymond Cannon
*Raymond Cannon was born on January 28, 1892. He was a Black pharmacist and lawyer.
Raymond Winfield Cannon was from Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota. He was the youngest of three sons of Mack Oliver Cannon and Mattie Belle Boone. By 1900, the family lived in Minneapolis, where Cannon was a 1912 Minneapolis Central High School graduate. In 1913, he earned a degree in pharmacy from the University of Minnesota and owned a pharmacy with his brother Miles.
Through the Minnesota Home Guard, he was a veteran of World War I from 1947 to 1959; Cannon was also a member of the Fair Employment Practices Commission in Minneapolis for twelve years. He graduated from the Minneapolis College of Law in 1947, soon after being admitted to the bar, and his brother, K. Homer Cannon, had his practice. He retired in 1959, moved to Los Angeles, and married Rachel Louise James in Saint Paul in June 1964.
He was active in a wide range of organizations, and he founded the Minneapolis branch of the Urban League and was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Raymond Cannon, a 33rd-degree Prince Hall Mason, died on March 13, 1992, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.
