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1872 Currier and Ives print showing the first Black U.S. 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), 1872. The following is a list of Black Republicans, past and present. This list is limited ...
Every African American who served in the U.S. House of Representatives before 1935 and all of the African Americans who served in the Senate before 1979, were Republicans. Frederick Douglass after the Civil War and Booker T. Washington in the early 20th century were prominent Republican spokesmen. [Note 11] [46] [47]
Their vote was important to the Republicans, however. In 1909, at a time when the Democrats were pushing for disenfranchisement in the state, the Republicans called on all members of the Negro Republican Party to turn out on voting day in every district. [8]
Two new black Republicans, Will Hurd of Texas's 23rd district and Mia Love of Utah's 4th district, were elected in 2014, with Love being the first ever black Republican woman to be elected to Congress. She lost reelection in 2018, leaving Hurd as the only black Republican member of the U.S. House.
"The New Black Republicans." WBUR, Boston's NPR. June 2, 2004. Organizations. Alliance of Black Republicans; African American Republican Leadership Council; Black Conservative Think Tank; Black America's PAC; Congress of Racial Equality; American Civil Rights Institute; New Coalition for Economic and Social Change; National Black Republican ...
A Pew Research study from 2019 estimated that 4 in 10 Black Democratic voters were ideologically moderate, with a smaller share being ideologically conservative.
Republican Party: 1 vote at national convention. Keyes was the Republican candidate in the U.S. Senate election in Maryland at the time, and was not actively seeking the presidency in 1992. George H.W. Bush: 1996: Alan Keyes: Republican Party: 1 vote at national convention: Bob Dole: 1996: Isabell Masters: Republican Party: 1052 votes (7th ...
A Republican, Brooke was the first black senator to serve two terms in the Senate, holding office until 1979. [5] 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.