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Alexander Lucius Twilight was an American educator, politician, and minister. He was the first African American to earn a college degree from an American College at Middlebury College in 1823. He is the first African American elected to serve in a state legislature, the Vermont House of Representatives in 1836.
First African-American senator from South Carolina: Tim Scott [26] (Also the first African-American to serve both houses of the U.S. Congress.) First African-American woman to be appointed to a seat on the New York Court of Appeals: Sheila Abdus-Salaam. First African-American senator from New Jersey: Cory Booker. 2014
No African American had ever served while it was a cabinet post. [35] The Secretaries of the Navy, Air Force, and Army ceased to be members of the cabinet when the Department of the Navy was absorbed into the Department of Defense in 1947. No African American had ever served while they were cabinet posts. [36] [37]
Through 1900, 24 African Americans served in the Louisiana Senate during Reconstruction; more than 100 served in the Louisiana House of Representatives. [43] In addition, six African American men held statewide offices in Louisiana, including the nation's first African American acting governors.
Clifton Reginald Wharton Sr. (May 11, 1899 – April 25, 1990) was an American diplomat, and the first African American diplomat to become an ambassador by rising through the ranks of the Foreign Service rather than by political appointment such as Frederick Douglass. [1]
first African-American men elected to the Virginia Senate: James W. D. Bland, Isaiah L. Lyons, William P. Moseley, Frank Moss, John Robinson, and George Teamoh (1869) [18] [19] first African-American man elected to the Virginia House of Delegates since Reconstruction: William Ferguson Reid (1968)
The first African-American mayors were elected during Reconstruction in the Southern United States beginning about 1867. African Americans in the South were also elected to many local offices, such as sheriff and Justice of the Peace, and state offices such as legislatures as well as a smaller number of federal offices.
Crum was the first African American to hold the position [6] [11] [21] and held it until March 4, 1909. [22] The heavy opposition he faced had catapulted him onto the national stage. After Roosevelt left office, his successor, William Howard Taft, considered Crum's status in Charleston to be a political liability.