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Overall, 31 of the 50 U.S. states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, have elected an African American to represent them in the U.S. House of Representatives, with Rhode Island being the most recent to elect its first (in 2023); out of these, 23 states, plus U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, have elected ...
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 ...
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of January 20, 2025, the 119th 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.
After the presidential race was called Wednesday morning, Americans are awaiting the final results of races in the U.S. House of Representatives. All 435 U.S. House of Representatives seats were ...
Americans are poised to elect a new Congress as every seat in the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate is up before voters on Election Day. Republicans win control of the Senate ...
This category includes African American members of the United States House of Representatives who are currently serving as well as those who served in the past. The main article for this category is African Americans in the United States Congress .
Blunt Rochester, 62, will be the first Black Delawarean and the first woman to represent the First State in the Senate. She's the third Black woman elected to the chamber out of more than 2,000 in ...
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. Carol Moseley Braun entered the Senate in 1993 and was the first African-American woman in the Senate. [5] She served one term.