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Lee Patrick Brown (born October 4, 1937) is an American politician, criminologist and businessman; in 1997 he was the first African-American to be elected mayor of Houston, Texas. He was re-elected twice to serve the maximum of three terms from 1998 to 2004. [1]
Appointed to office and won subsequent election; lost bid for re-election Michael L. Williams (born 1953) Republican: Texas: January 3, 1999: March 31, 2011: Resigned Lambert Boissiere (born 1965) Democratic: Louisiana: January 1, 2005: January 1, 2023: Lost re-election Sandra Kennedy: Democratic: Arizona: January 5, 2009: January 7, 2013: Lost ...
He is the first African American elected to serve in a state legislature, the Vermont House of Representatives in 1836. Twilight was also a minister and secondary school principal, building Athenian Hall at the Orleans County Grammar Schools .
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 ...
The first African-American mayors were elected during Reconstruction in the Southern United States beginning about 1867. African Americans in the South were also elected to many local offices, such as sheriff and Justice of the Peace, and state offices such as legislatures as well as a smaller number of federal offices.
Christa Caceres is the first Black woman to become Pike County commissioner and the first woman elected to the position since the 1990s.
Williams was appointed Texas Education Commissioner on August 27, 2012 by then Governor Rick Perry; [5] he became the first African-American Commissioner of Education in Texas history. [10] On October 15, 2015, Williams announced that he would step down as Education Commissioner at the end of the year to return to the private sector.
More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern states. [1]