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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.
First bicameral state legislature to have both chambers headed simultaneously by African Americans: Peter Groff and Terrance Carroll of Colorado. 2010; First African-American elected Attorney General of California: Kamala Harris (see also: 2004, 2017) First African-American Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Roderick L ...
Henry Leander Marsh III (December 10, 1933 – January 23, 2025) was an American civil rights lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Marsh was elected by the city council as the first African-American mayor of Richmond, Virginia in 1977.
In 1968, Harris was appointed to the Virginia Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In 1987, he led a march against discrimination in Colonial Heights, Virginia. He filed a racial discrimination complaint, in 1996, against the Fort Lee Army Base. In 1998 he became Hopewell's first black mayor. [6]
James W. Holley III (November 24, 1926 – October 5, 2012) was an American politician and dental surgeon.Holley became the first Black mayor of Portsmouth, Virginia, [2] and ultimately the city's longest serving mayor, although both his mayoral terms (separated by a decade) ended with his being recalled from office.
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.
First African-American Professor of Poetry, first African-American woman Professor and first Distinguished Visiting Poetry Professor of the Iowa Writers' Workshop: Tracie Morris [351] First African-American elected official to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda : John Lewis [ 345 ] (See also: 1998, 2005)
Matthew M. Lewey – mayor of Newnansville 1875–1877 (also Florida House and postmaster) George H. Mays – marshal of Jacksonville [ 20 ] Robert Meacham – clerk of the circuit court Jefferson County 1868 and superintendent of commons schools Jefferson County 1869 (also Florida Senate, Florida Constitutional Convention, and postmaster)