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The United States House of Representatives has had 157 elected African-American members, of whom 151 have been representatives from U.S. states and 6 have been delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. [1]
In 2021, as stated by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, 27 Black women will serve in the 117th Congress, doubling the number of Black women to serve in 2011. [36] In 2014, Mia Love was the first black woman to be elected to Congress for the Republican Party. [37]
African American Members of the United States Congress: 1870-2012 A 66-page history produced by the Congressional Research Service. Black Americans in Congress, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives; Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007 C-SPAN video with Matt Wasniewski as the presenter. He discusses the history of African ...
Statistics from 2014 show “just 18 Black women were serving in Congress. We now have 31,” emphasized Carr. In 2016, Kamala Harris was elected to the U.S. Senate, and Lisa Blunt Rochester was ...
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 ...
Trump in the past has referred to a Black prosecutor as an “animal,” told Black Democratic members of Congress to “go back” to where they came from and referred to Black female journalists ...
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of January 20, 2025, the 119th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
Democratic: December 7, 2016: December 2, 2020: 3 years, 361 days Mitzi Johnson Vermont: House of Representatives Democratic: January 4, 2017: January 6, 2021: 4 years, 2 days Crisanta Duran [d] Colorado: House of Representatives Democratic: January 11, 2017: January 4, 2019: 1 year, 358 days KC Becker Colorado: House of Representatives ...