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Pages in category "African-American state legislators in Massachusetts" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The compromise counted three-fifths of each state's slave population toward that state's total population for the purpose of apportioning the U.S. House of Representatives. Even though slaves were denied voting rights, this gave Southern states more U.S. representatives and more presidential electoral votes than if slaves had not been counted.
African-American state legislators in Massachusetts (36 P) Pages in category "African-American people in Massachusetts politics" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Edward Garrison Walker, state legislator in Massachusetts; Charles Lewis Mitchell was the other African American elected as a state legislator in Massachusetts (1866). He served a one-year term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. [2]
All of Mississippi's African American statewide officials and Senators took office during Reconstruction, as of 2022. Nevada 1 1 New Jersey 8 8 New Mexico 1 1 New York 9 9 North Carolina 4 4 Ohio 3 3 Oklahoma 1 1 Oregon 1 1 Pennsylvania 1 1 South Carolina 5 1 1 7 Francis Lewis Cardozo held office as Secretary of State and State Treasurer. Texas 2 2
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 ...
According to census information for 2010–2014, an estimated 180,657 people in Boston (28.2% of Boston's population) are Black/African American, either alone or in combination with another race. 160,342 (25.1% of Boston's population) are Black/African American alone. 14,763 (2.3% of Boston's population) are White and Black/African American ...
Robert C. Henry (1921–1981) first African-American mayor in Ohio, mayor of Springfield, Ohio; Curtis Hill (born 1961), 43rd Attorney General of Indiana; Mike Hill (born 1958), state representative in the Florida House of Representatives; James Sidney Hinton (1834–1892), state representative in the Indiana House of Representatives