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There currently are 57 African-American representatives and two African-American delegates in the United States House of Representatives, representing 29 states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia. Most are members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
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. [5] She served one term.
U.S. Senators U.S. at-large Representatives Total Notes Arizona 1 1 Arkansas 1 1 California 5 1 5 Kamala Harris held office as Attorney General and later as U.S. Senator Colorado 3 3 Connecticut 5 5 Delaware 2 1 3 Florida 4 1 5 Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs held office as Secretary of State and State Superintendent. Georgia 3 1 4 Illinois 4 3 6
The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. This list includes all senators serving in the 119th United States Congress . Party affiliation
Revels was the first black member of the Congress overall. [11] Black people were a majority of the population in many congressional districts across the South. In 1870, Joseph Rainey of South Carolina was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first directly elected black member of Congress to be seated. [12]
This category includes African-American United States senators who are currently serving as well as those who served in the past. Pages in category "African-American United States senators" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
First African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate [12] Mississippi 1872 P. B. S. Pinchback: Republican: Won the election; not seated due to election challenges [13] Louisiana 1870 Hiram Revels + Republicans: First African-American senator (elected by state legislature to fill a vacant seat) [14] Mississippi
(Also first African-American woman elected to the United States Senate, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first female Senator from Illinois). 1994; First African-American woman elected to the Nevada Legislature: Bernice Mathews