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Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (May 10, 1837 – December 21, 1921) was an American publisher, politician, and Union Army officer who served as Governor of Louisiana from December 9, 1872 to January 13, 1873. Pinchback was the first African-American governor and the second lieutenant governor (after Oscar Dunn) in the United
First African-American governor of Louisiana: P. B. S. Pinchback (Also first in U.S.) (non-elected; see also Douglas Wilder, 1990) (Also first elected senator but was denied seat) [3] 1873; First African-American Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, and of any state legislature: John R. Lynch
Lawrence Douglas Wilder (born January 17, 1931) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 66th governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. He was the first African American to serve as governor of a U.S. state since the Reconstruction era, and the first African American ever elected as governor.
This is a list of minority governors and lieutenant state governors in the United States.In the United States, an ethnic minority is anyone who has at least one parent who is not of non-Hispanic white descent (such as African Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islands Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, or Native Americans).
First African-American elected governor of the U.S. state of Maryland: Wes Moore [371] First African-American elected Attorney General of the U.S. state of Maryland: Anthony Brown [372] First African-American chosen to lead a party caucus in either chamber of Congress: Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) [373] [374]
William Henry Hastie Jr. (November 17, 1904 – April 14, 1976) was an American lawyer, judge, educator, public official, and civil rights advocate. He was the first African American to serve as Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, as a federal judge, [1] and as a federal appellate judge. [2]
Upon taking the oath of office in January 1990, Governor Wilder became the first African-American governor of Virginia, and the first African-American governor of any state since Reconstruction more than one hundred years earlier. This remains the last election in which a party won the governorship for a third consecutive term.
This list contains state and territory governors of the United States who had any known amount of African ancestry. Some of these may not be considered "black" by modern US standards. Pages in category "African-American state governors of the United States"