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Three of the 14 African-American senators held Illinois's Class 3 seat, including Barack Obama, who went on to become President of the United States. This makes Illinois the state with the most African-American U.S. senators to date. In 2016, Kamala Harris became the first African American to be elected a U.S. senator from California.
60.7%; first African-American senator elected by popular vote: Massachusetts 1874 Blanche Bruce: Republican: 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
She would become the first female and first African-American Vice President of the United States Senate. As of the 2022 midterm elections, there are no Black women in the United States Senate. [53] On October 1, 2023, labor union official Laphonza Butler was chosen to fill the Senate seat left vacant by Dianne Feinstein's death.
The first African American to serve was Senator Hiram Revels in 1870. The first African American to chair a congressional committee was Representative William L. Dawson in 1949. The first African-American woman was Representative Shirley Chisholm in 1968, and the first African American to become Dean of the House was John Conyers in 2015.
They’ll make history as the fourth and fifth Black women to serve in the U.S. Senate—and the only two to serve together at the same time.
On Thursday, 20 women were sworn into the senate -- four more women than have ever served in the Senate in the entire history of the country. The winds of change were roaring in the U.S. Capitol ...
It includes a list of all women who have served in the Senate, a list of current female senators, and a list of states represented by women in the Senate. The first female U.S. senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton , represented Georgia for a single day in 1922, and the first woman elected to the Senate, Hattie Caraway , was elected from Arkansas in ...
Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester will become the first Black woman to represent Delaware in the Senate after she defeated Republican Eric Hansen and independent candidate Mike Katz, NBC News ...