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Overall, 31 of the 50 U.S. states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, have elected an African American to represent them in the U.S. House of Representatives, with Rhode Island being the most recent to elect its first (in 2023); out of these, 23 states, plus U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, have elected ...
(Also first African-American woman elected to the United States Senate, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first female Senator from Illinois). 1994; First African-American woman elected to the Nevada Legislature: Bernice Mathews
This is a list of African Americans who have served in statewide elected executive offices in the United States, whether they were elected, succeeded or appointed to such elected office. These state constitutional officers have their duties and qualifications mandated in state constitutions.
African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era; African-American officeholders in the United States, 1789–1866; List of African-American statewide elected officials; List of minority attorneys general in the United States; National Black Caucus of State Legislators; List of African-American Republicans
An influential group of Black voters in North Carolina has endorsed candidates in the primary election, with Josh Stein, Satana Deberry and Rachel Hunt topping the ballot.
Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson (1927–2010), first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School; anti-abortion movement leader; Republican candidate for U.S. House and U.S. Senate; Wallace B. Jefferson (born 1963), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas; Edward A. Johnson (1860–1944), member of the New York State Assembly
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Asante used five factors in establishing the list: "significance in the general progress of African-Americans toward full equality in the American social and political system" "self-sacrifice and a willingness to take great risks for the collective good" "unusual will and determination in the face of great danger and against the most stubborn odds"