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Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, [1] and politician.A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, [2] and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House from the ...
Shirley Anita Chisholm (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ z ə m / CHIZ-əm; née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. [1]
Illinois's 1st congressional district has the longest continuous streak of electing African-American representatives, a tendency that has occurred from 1928 to the present. There currently are 58 African-American representatives and two African-American delegates in the United States House of Representatives , representing 29 states, plus the U ...
1st: Palestine: Elected in 1857. Resigned. March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1883 Elected in 1874. Redistricted to the 2nd district. March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887 2nd: Redistricted from the 1st district and re-elected in 1882. Resigned when elected to U.S. Senator. Kenneth M. Regan: Democratic August 23, 1947 – January 3, 1955 16th: Midland
first African-American man elected to the Illinois General Assembly: John W. E. Thomas (1876) first African-American man elected to the Illinois Senate: Adelbert H. Roberts (1924) first African-American woman elected to the Illinois General Assembly: Floy Clements (1958) first African-American woman elected to the Illinois Senate: Earlean ...
Revels was the first black member of the Congress overall. [11] Black people were a majority of the population in many congressional districts across the South. In 1870, Joseph Rainey of South Carolina was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first directly elected black member of Congress to be seated. [12]
First African-American and First woman elected Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates: Adrienne A. Jones First African-American elected Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Juliana Stratton. 2019; First African-American elected Attorney General of Kentucky: Daniel Cameron First Surgeon General for the State of California: Nadine Burke Harris ...
On Tuesday, Jennifer McClellan made history, becoming the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress in Virginia. McClellan, a Democrat, won a special election in the Fourth Congressional ...