Alfred J. Gomes, Esq.

Born June 14, 1897 in the Cape Verdean Islands, Alfred J. Gomes came to New Bedford at the age of seven and was educated in the New Bedford Public Schools. He worked to finance his own college education and graduated from Boston University Law School in 1923. Having attained this level of education, he became one of the first Cape Verdean-born Americans to receive a doctor of jurisprudence degree.