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After Congress passed the First Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 and ratified the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1870, African Americans began to be elected or appointed to national, state, county and local offices throughout the United States. [1] Four of the five office holders served in a New England state.
In 1949, Dawson became the first African American in history to chair a congressional committee. De Priest was the last African-American Republican elected to the House for 58 years, until Gary Franks was elected to represent Connecticut's 5th in 1990. Franks was joined by J.C. Watts in 1994 but lost his bid for reelection two years later.
Joseph Hayne Rainey (June 21, 1832 – August 1, 1887) was an American politician. He was the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives and the second black person (after Hiram Revels) to serve in the United States Congress. His service included time as presiding officer of the House of Representatives.
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 ...
Rep. Joseph H. Rainey, born into slavery in 1832, was honored Thursday for being the first Black member of the The post First Black Congressman, who was born a slave, honored at Capitol appeared ...
After moving to New Orleans, on November 3, 1868, Menard was the first black man ever elected to the United States House of Representatives. [1] His opponent contested his election, and opposition to his election prevented him from being seated in Congress.
First African-American senator from South Carolina: Tim Scott [26] (Also the first African-American to serve both houses of the U.S. Congress.) First African-American woman to be appointed to a seat on the New York Court of Appeals: Sheila Abdus-Salaam. First African-American senator from New Jersey: Cory Booker. 2014
Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War. Elected by the Mississippi legislature to the United States Senate as a Republican to represent Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during the Reconstruction era, he was the first African American to serve in either house of the U.S. Congress.