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2013–present. Cowan William Cowan (Mo) (D-MA) 2013–2. 2013. Scott Tim Scott (R-SC) 2013–1. 2013–present. Burris Roland Burris (D-IL) 2009–2010.
In 2021, Raphael Warnock of Georgia was elected as the first African-American Democrat to represent a former Confederate state in the Senate. As of January 20, 2021, there have been 1,994 members of the United States Senate, [10] of which 11 have been African American.
In the more than 234 years that the U.S. Senate has existed, there have only been 12 Senators who are Black. Here they are.
When it comes to the upper chamber of Congress, 12 senators are members of a racial or ethnic minority group, up slightly from 11 in the 117th Congress. Six senators are Hispanic, two are Asian, three are Black and one is American Indian.
Newly elected Raphael Warnock is only the 11th Black US senator since the Senate convened for the first time in 1789. Only two of those have been women. And with the departure of Kamala...
Senator Hiram Revels was the first African American to serve in Congress. From the first United States Congress in 1789 through the 116th Congress in 2020, 162 African Americans served in Congress. [1] Meanwhile, the total number of all individuals who have served in Congress over that period is 12,348. [2]
Reverend Raphael Warnock, now a U.S. Senator, joins a short list of Black senators in our country, becoming the 11 th Black person to serve in the U.S. Senate and the first Black senator from Georgia.