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The first African-American woman to serve as a representative was Shirley Chisholm from New York's 12th congressional district in 1969 during the Civil Rights Movement. Many African-American members of the House of Representatives serve majority-minority districts. [ 4 ]
Matthew Gaines (1840–1900), community leader, minister, and Republican Texas State Senator. James Garner, mayor of the Village of Hempstead, New York, 2004 Congressional candidate; Althea Garrison (born 1940), former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; Robert A. George, editorial writer for the New York Post, blogger and pundit
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Texas.For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Texas.
Mayra Nohemi Flores (born January 1, 1986) is an American politician who represented Texas's 34th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2022 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, she was the first female Mexican-born member of the House.
Two new black Republicans, Will Hurd of Texas's 23rd district and Mia Love of Utah's 4th district, were elected in 2014, with Love being the first ever black Republican woman to be elected to Congress. She lost reelection in 2018, leaving Hurd as the only black Republican member of the U.S. House.
Eleven Black women serve in statewide elected posts, 28 are in Congress and two are U.S. delegates, according to the Center for American Women and Politics. There is one Black woman in the Senate ...
In Oregon, State House Rep. Janelle Bynum is battling it out in a close congressional race against Republican U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who won the seat in a district that President Joe Biden ...
In 2021, as stated by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, 27 Black women will serve in the 117th Congress, doubling the number of Black women to serve in 2011. [36] In 2014, Mia Love was the first black woman to be elected to Congress for the Republican Party. [37]