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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 ...
Louisiana's Legislature created the state's second majority Black district last week and Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed the map into law Monday to avoid the threat of a federal judge ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In a critical election year, the race for Louisiana’s new mostly Black congressional district is heating up as three candidates — including a longtime Democratic ...
Republican: Florida: 1868 1872 Appointed Superintendent of Public Instruction Pierre G. Deslonde: Republican: Louisiana: 1872 1876 Retired James D. Lynch (1839–1872) Republican: Mississippi: 1869 1872 Retired Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827–1901) Republican: Mississippi: 1872 1873 Retired Hannibal C. Carter: Republican: Mississippi: 1873 1873 ...
Louisiana voters will elect all six members of their U.S. House of Representatives delegation this year beginning with the Nov. 5 primary election that will include a new Black majority voter ...
As of 2009, Republicans had not had the majority in either the Louisiana House or state Senate since the Reconstruction era. The first Republicans elected to the state house in Louisiana in the 20th century were Morley A. Hudson and Taylor W. O'Hearn in 1964, the year that the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed.
Louisiana's new majority Black 6th Congressional District boundaries stretch from Baton Rouge to Alexandria to Acadiana to Shreveport. ... and Republican former state Sen. Elbert Guillory of ...
From 1868, campaigns and elections in Louisiana were increasingly marked by Democratic violence. Historian George C. Rable described the White League, a paramilitary group started in 1874, as the "military arm of the Democratic Party." [24] The paramilitary group used intimidation and violence to suppress black voting and run Republicans out of ...