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The first person of African heritage to arrive in Texas was Estevanico, who came to Texas in 1528. [4] The earliest black residents in Texas were Afro-Mexican slaves brought by the Spanish. [5] A large majority of Black Texans live in the Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan areas. [6]
first African-American men elected to the Texas Senate: George T. Ruby and Matthew Gaines (1869) first African-American men elected to the Texas House of Representatives : 14 men (1869) first African-American woman elected to the Texas Senate : Barbara Jordan (1966)
John C. Alaniz (1957): [77] [78] First Hispanic American male (a lawyer) elected to the Texas State House of Representatives from Bexar County, Texas (1960) Andrew L. Jefferson Jr. (1959): [ 79 ] First African American male to serve as the Assistant District Attorney of Bexar County, Texas (1961)
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, [1] and politician.A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, [2] the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, [3] [4] and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House ...
In 1878 Allen unsuccessfully ran for lieutenant governor; he was the first African American in Texas to run as a candidate for a statewide office. After leaving the legislature, he continued to be active in the Republican Party. He attended state and national conventions as a delegate until 1896 (for more than two and a half decades). [2]
First bicameral state legislature to have both chambers headed simultaneously by African Americans: Peter Groff and Terrance Carroll of Colorado. 2010; First African-American elected Attorney General of California: Kamala Harris (see also: 2004, 2017) First African-American Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Roderick L ...
First African-American Professor of Poetry, first African-American woman Professor and first Distinguished Visiting Poetry Professor of the Iowa Writers' Workshop: Tracie Morris [350] First African-American elected official to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda : John Lewis [ 351 ] (See also: 1998, 2005)
Nandita Berry (1995): [58] First Indian American female (and Indian American in general; a lawyer) to serve as the Secretary of State for Texas (c. 2014) Jolanda Jones (1995): [87] First openly lesbian African American (a lawyer) elected to the Texas State Legislature (upon winning a special election in House District 147 in 2022)