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Listed are those African-American candidates who achieved ballot access for a federal election. They made the primary ballot, and have votes in the election in order to qualify for this list. Not included are African-Americans potential candidates (suggested by media, objects of draft movements, etc.), potential candidates who did not file for
Pages in category "African-American candidates for the United States Senate" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
12:28 p.m. NJ Senate candidates: One voted early, one in person on Election Day Andy Kim, New Jersey's Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, waited in line at his Moorestown polling place for just ...
In a field of seven candidates, Booker won the Democratic nomination with 29.5 percent of the vote, [15] and defeated Republican Everett Corley in the general election by 56 percent. [ 16 ] As part of the Kentucky House of Representatives, Booker served on the economic development and workforce, judiciary, and natural resources and energy ...
The first polls closed in parts of Kentucky and Indiana at 6 p.m. ET. Follow for live results here. Georgia, the rest of Indiana and Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia and parts of ...
The first two African-American senators represented the state of Mississippi during the Reconstruction era, following the American Civil War. Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African American to serve in the Senate, was elected in 1870 [5] by the Mississippi State Legislature to succeed Albert G. Brown, who resigned during the Civil War.
Marquita Bradshaw (born January 19, 1974) is an American environmentalist, activist, and political candidate. She was the Democratic nominee in the 2020 United States Senate election in Tennessee, the first African American woman to win a major political party nomination in any statewide race in Tennessee.
Angel Joy Chavis Rocker (1966–2003), guidance counselor, first African-American woman candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States 2000. George Thompson Ruby (1841–1882), member of the Texas State Senate; George Lewis Ruffin (1834–1886), attorney, judge, Massachusetts state legislator, and Boston city councilman