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Traverse Benjamin Pinn Sr. was a magistrate, local official, newspaper co-founder and publisher, inventor, internal revenue official, barber, and civic leader in Alexandria, Virginia. He was African American.

He was secretary of the Fourth Ward Republican Club in 1870. He was elected a magistrate the same year. He served on Alexandria's Board of Aldermen in 1872. He was a storekeeper in Alexandria, Virginia. He founded The People's Advocate with John Wesley Cromwell in 1876. He was the paper's publisher and business manager. Cromwell was its editor. It was a Republican paper.

He owned a house on Duke Street.

In 1871 he testified about election threats he received while campaigning. He testified that he was 31 years old.

He was an assistant auditor in a federal treasury office.

In 1880 he received a patent for a file holder. Susie E. Pinn was appointed administratix of his estate.

His sister, Hannah Bailey (1850-1937), gave an interview in 1937. She said a bachelor named Montgomery fathered her mother who was freed at 18. She said his will deeded lands to her mother and the lands were taken after his death. She said Traverse Pinn worked at a Confederate hospital.here?