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Lawrence Douglas Wilder (born January 17, 1931) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 66th governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. He was the first African American to serve as governor of a U.S. state since the Reconstruction era, and the first African American ever elected as governor.
(see also: Douglas Wilder, 1990) 1872; First African-American governor of Louisiana: P. B. S. Pinchback (Also first in U.S.) (non-elected; see also Douglas Wilder, 1990) (Also first elected senator but was denied seat) [3] 1873; First African-American Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, and of any state legislature: John R. Lynch
Upon taking the oath of office in January 1990, Governor Wilder became the first African-American governor of Virginia, and the first African-American governor of any state since Reconstruction more than one hundred years earlier. This remains the last election in which a party won the governorship for a third consecutive term.
First African-American Democratic U.S. senator to represent a former Confederate state in the United States Senate: Raphael Warnock, elected in Georgia. [353] [354] [355] First African-American United States Secretary of Defense: Lloyd Austin [356] First full-time female African-American NFL coach: Jennifer King (Washington Commanders). [357]
January 13 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia. January 15 – Martin Luther King Day Crash – Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Detroit, including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an AT&T software bug.
Several governors of U.S. territories have been ethnic minorities. Many of these officials were appointed before elections were instituted in these jurisdictions. In each of the five current U.S. territories, Hispanic or non-white ethnic groups make up large majorities: Puerto Rican Hispanic Americans in Puerto Rico, African Americans in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Chamorros in Guam and the ...
Some of these may not be considered "black" by modern US standards. Pages in category "African-American state governors of the United States" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Douglas Wilder, the first black governor of Virginia, who served from 1990 to 1994, originally entered the Senate race in June as an independent before dropping out in September after polls showed him with favoring of less than 15% in a four-man ballot. [5] In the last weeks of the election, Wilder started to campaign for Robb. [3]