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What is Joycelyn Elders famous for?

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She was the first African-American Surgeon General of the United States. She also became controversial (it is not clear she would still be regarded that way twenty years later) for her comments in favor of legalizing certain drugs and of making condoms available in high schools; then-President Bill Clinton fired her in December 1994.

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Joycelyn Elders was born on August 13, 1933.


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Joycelyn Elders's birth name is Minnie Lee Jones.


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