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Ouachita Baptist University (MA) Joyce Ann Elliott (born March 20, 1951) is an American politician from the state of Arkansas. From 2009 to 2022, she was a member of the Arkansas Senate representing the 31st district, which consisted of portions of Little Rock and Pulaski County. [1] She was previously a member of the Arkansas House of ...
The United States House of Representatives has had 157 elected African-American members, of whom 151 have been representatives from U.S. states and 6 have been delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. [1] The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral United States Congress, which is the legislative branch ...
United States Senate. Carol Moseley Braun was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, 1993. Laphonza Butler is the first Black LGBT person to serve in the U.S. Senate, 2023. Kamala Harris was the first African-American U.S. senator to be elected vice president of the United States.
From 1979 to 1993, there were no black members of the United States Senate. Between 1993 and 2010, three black members of the Illinois Democratic Party would hold Illinois's Class 3 Senate seat at different times. Carol Moseley Braun entered the Senate in 1993 and was the first African-American woman in the Senate. [4] She served one term.
Redistricted from the 7th district and re-elected in 1952. Resigned to become US District judge for the Eastern and Western District of Arkansas. Brooks Hays. January 3, 1943 –. January 3, 1959. Democratic. 5th. Elected in 1942. Lost re-election to Alford (write-in).
On Tuesday, Jennifer McClellan made history, becoming the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress in Virginia.McClellan, a Democrat, won a special election in the Fourth Congressional ...
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965 (University of Arkansas Press, 2023) online. Kirk, John A. "The Little Rock crisis and postwar black activism in Arkansas." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 56.3 (1997): 273–293. online; Lovett, Bobby L. "African Americans, Civil War, and Aftermath in ...
Women Members Who Became Cabinet Members and United States Diplomats - Provided by the U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Historian. Part of the History, Art & Archives, Women in Congress, 1917–2006 website. Retrieved January 11, 2016.