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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 ...
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) The right of black people to vote and to serve in the United States Congress was established after the Civil War by amendments to the ...
Texas House of Representatives: 1966 [66] Utah 3: Mike Kennedy (R) No Open seat; replacing John Curtis (R) Utah Senate Utah House of Representatives: 1969 [67] Virginia 5: John McGuire (R) No Defeated Bob Good (R) in a primary: Virginia Senate Virginia House of Delegates: 1968 [68] Virginia 7: Eugene Vindman (D) No Open seat; replacing Abigail ...
NEW CASTLE, Del. — Delaware voters just sent Lisa Blunt Rochester to the U.S. Senate. Blunt Rochester, 62, will be the first Black Delawarean and the first woman to represent the First State in ...
Female candidates, particularly women of color, have long had more trouble raising funds for campaigns, Laphonza Butler, D-Calif., currently the only Black woman in the Senate, told USA TODAY.
Shomari Figures, Democratic candidate for Alabama’s 2nd congressional district, greets and takes a photo with Abbie Felder, of Montgomery, at the Frazer Church voting precinct, on Election Day ...
Population data are from 2021 American Community Survey and 2020 census population estimates. Districts in the table below reflect the 118th Congress. [1]Currently, there are 26 congressional districts where African Americans make up a majority of constituents, mostly in the South.
Chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus: Chuck Schumer: NY: January 3, 2025 Party leader since January 3, 2017: Senate Minority Whip: Dick Durbin: IL: January 3, 2025 Party whip since January 3, 2005: Chair of the Senate Democratic Steering and Policy Committee: Amy Klobuchar: MN: January 3, 2025: Chair of the Senate Democratic Strategic ...