Robert Thomas Teamoh (March 25, 1864 - 1912) was a newspaper reporter for The Boston Globe and state legislator in Massachusetts.
[6] Teamoh was a known Freemason and worked for the Boston Globe for over 20 years.
[7] He is believed to be the first African American reporter for a white newspaper in Boston.
Charles Triplett O'Ferrall, Virginia's governor, refused the meet with the delegation while Teamoh was part of it so he waited outside.
[9] Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin criticized Teamoh in her newspaper, Woman's Era, for "servile complicity" toward O'Ferrall.