Aubrey Radcliffe was a trustee at Michigan State University. Life Radcliffe was the first, and the only, African-American Republican elected to statewide office in Michigan when the voters placed him on the board of trustees in the 1970s. He fought for divestment from South Africa while serving on the board in the early 1980s. Radcliffe was a resident of East Lansing, an honorary member of Delta Upsilon International Fraternity, and held a Ph.D. in psychology from Michigan State University. He worked as a counselor at J.W. Sexton High School in Lansing. Death Aubrey Radcliffe died Friday, March 27, 2009, in East Lansing, Michigan at age 75. Michigan State University alumni 2009 deaths 1933 births Michigan Republicans 20th-century American academics