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Barack Obama was the first African American and first biracial president of the United States, being elected in the 2008 election and re-elected in the 2012 election. Kamala Harris became the first African-American vice president of the United States of America, being elected in the 2020 election alongside President Joe Biden. She is also the ...
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
African-American candidates for president of the United States from major parties include U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), elected president of the United States in 2008. He was the first African American to win a presidential election and the first African American to serve as president of the United States. He was re-elected as president in ...
When he won a seat in the U.S. House in 2010, Scott became the first Black Republican elected to Congress from South Carolina since the 1890s, during an era when white Democrats ousted many ...
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester could become the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate from the state of Delaware. She would also become only the fourth Black woman to serve in the Senate in its ...
“We don’t have Black poverty or white poverty. We have poverty,” Scott recently told an all-white audience in Iowa OSKALOOSA, The post Tim Scott is the top Black Republican in the GOP ...
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
The only Black Republican in the Senate is set to head to Iowa later this month to speak at the Polk County Republican Party's Lincoln Dinner, a major event in the early caucus state. Liz Cheney