Jack Johnson

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Boxer Jack Johnson is shown working out in New York City in this 1932 file photo at the age of 54.
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U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) shakes hands with Dorothy Cross, great niece of the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion John Arthur "Jack" Johnson, during a news conference on Capitol Hill on April 1, 2009.
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Boxer Jack Johnson is shown working out in New York City in this 1932 file photo at the age of 54.

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1 of 2 Sen. John McCain wants a presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, who became the nation's first black heavyweight boxing champion 100 years before Barack Obama became its first black president.