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African-American candidates who unsuccessfully sought presidential nomination Year Name Party Details Nominee 1848: Frederick Douglass: Liberty Party: 1 vote at national convention [31] Gerrit Smith: 1888: Frederick Douglass: Republican Party: 1 vote at national convention: Benjamin Harrison: 1968: Channing E. Phillips: Democratic Party: 67.5 ...
He did not campaign for President (he was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Maryland that year). He became the first African-American candidate to run in the Republican presidential primaries in 1996, but he did not win any state's primary or caucus. [18]
Presidential nominee 1876 (won) Vice presidential nominee Rutherford B. Hayes of OH (1822–1893) Prior public experience. U.S. House of Representatives (1865–1867) Governor of Ohio (1868–1872, 1876–1877) Higher education. Kenyon College ; Harvard University ; Prior public experience. New York Assembly (1850–1851) New York Senate (1858 ...
Scott — the only Black Republican in the Senate — and groups supporting him have been big spenders so far in the primary, coming in fourth behind Trump, DeSantis and Burgum.
“We don’t have Black poverty or white poverty. We have poverty,” Scott recently told an all-white audience in Iowa OSKALOOSA, The post Tim Scott is the top Black Republican in the GOP ...
Kathy Barnette (born 1971), unsuccessful Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania 5th District 2020, unsuccessful candidate for Republican nomination for United States Senator from Pennsylvania 2022. Houston A.P. Bassett (1857–1920), member of the Texas House of Representatives
Among voters for Republican candidates in the 2022 midterm elections, just 18% said racism is a very serious problem in U.S. society, compared with 61% of voters for Democratic candidates ...
Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally on the Ellipse on October 29, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)