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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.
January 25, 1870, letter from the governor and secretary of state of Mississippi that certified the election of Hiram Rhodes Revels to the Senate. First black senator and representatives: Sen. Hiram Revels (R-MS), Rep. Benjamin S. Turner (R-AL), Robert DeLarge (R-SC), Josiah Walls (R-FL), Jefferson Long (R-GA), Joseph Rainey and Robert B. Elliott (R-SC)
Pages in category "African-American members of the United States House of Representatives" The following 187 pages are in this category, out of 187 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( January 2019 ) This is the main page for the alphabetized list of former members of the United States House of Representatives , which is accessible by using the above template.
Rep. Joseph H. Rainey, born into slavery in 1832, was honored Thursday for being the first Black member of the The post First Black Congressman, who was born a slave, honored at Capitol appeared ...
He is the first African American elected to serve in a state legislature, the Vermont House of Representatives in 1836. Twilight was also a minister and secondary school principal, building Athenian Hall at the Orleans County Grammar Schools. John Mercer Langston; Edward Garrison Walker, state legislator in Massachusetts
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of December 14, 2024, the 118th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
first African-American man elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives: Sampson W. Keeble (1873) first African-American man elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives since Reconstruction: Archie Walter Willis Jr. (1964) first African-American woman elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives: Dorothy Lavinia Brown (1966)