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  2. List of African-American United States senators - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of African-American Republicans - Wikipedia

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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 ...

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    Ironically, all these men were Republicans. The parties have actually switched sides on quite a lot of issues since the 1800s; it's somewhat weird to see the party that first elected blacks be the one that currently has a scandal where Florida's former Republican governor is saying they have given up any hope of attracting black votes, so are ...

  5. List of African-American United States Senate candidates

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    Republican: 60.7%; first African-American senator elected by popular vote: Massachusetts 1874 Blanche Bruce: Republican: First African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate [12] Mississippi 1872 P. B. S. Pinchback: Republican: Won the election; not seated due to election challenges [13] Louisiana 1870 Hiram Revels + Republicans

  6. African Americans in the United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    West lost his reelection bid in 2012, while Scott resigned in January 2013 to accept appointment to the U.S. Senate. 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 ...

  7. Tim Scott - Wikipedia

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    [12] [13] Scott won the seat as a Republican, receiving nearly 80% of the vote in the white-majority district. [14] He became the first black Republican elected to any office in South Carolina since the late 19th century. [15] In 1996, Scott challenged Democratic State Senator Robert Ford in South Carolina's 42nd Senate district but lost 65 ...

  8. List of former United States senators - Wikipedia

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    Great Seal of the United States Senate: History of the United States Senate: Members; Current members ... Republican: 1858–1922 James Black Groome: 1879–1885: 3 ...

  9. Edward Brooke - Wikipedia

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    [1] [a] Prior to serving in the Senate, he served as the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1963 until 1967. Edward Brooke was the first African-American since Reconstruction in 1874 to have been elected to the United States Senate and he was the first African-American since 1881 to have held a United States Senate seat ...