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The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral United States Congress, which is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the term "African American" includes all individuals who identify with one or more nationalities or ethnic groups originating in any of the ...
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)
A Republican, Brooke was the first black senator to serve two terms in the Senate, holding office until 1979. [5] From 1979 to 1993, there were no black members of the United States Senate. Between 1993 and 2010, three black members of the Illinois Democratic Party would hold Illinois's Class 3 Senate seat at different times.
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)
These are tables of congressional delegations from Virginia to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Virginia's current U.S. Senators are Democrats Mark Warner (serving since 2009) and Tim Kaine (serving since 2013). Virginia is allotted 11 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives; currently, 6 seats are held by ...
A federal appeals court on Thursday refused to block the Republican-crafted North Carolina Senate map from taking effect, which a lawsuit argues will dilute the voting power of Black residents.
The Supreme Court in its June 2023 decision upheld a judicial panel's finding that Alabama's Republican-crafted map had diluted the voting power of Black voters in violation of a provision called ...
Resigned after being elected to the US Senate: Richard H. Poff: Republican: January 3, 1953 - August 29, 1972 6th: Appointed Virginia Supreme Court justice Charles H. Porter: Republican: January 27, 1870 - March 3, 1873 3rd [data missing] Alfred H. Powell: Anti-Jacksonian: March 4, 1825 - March 3, 1827 17th [data missing] Cuthbert Powell: Whig