If you want to check African American Senators List, then you are at right place. Here we are presenting the list of black senators in U.S Senate. You can check names of black female senators, black republican senators who are currently serving as representatives in United States senate. The list of black politicians includes 11 African Americans who have served in the United States Senate till FY 2023.
In 1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator. Carol Moseley Braun becomes the first African American woman to serve as U.S. senator in 1993. In 2005, Barack Obama of Illinois became the fifth African American to serve and third to be popularly elected. Tim Scott of South Carolina was appointed in 2013, becoming the first African American since Reconstruction to represent a southern state in the Senate. The appointment of Massachusetts senator William “Mo” Cowan on 1 February 2013, marked the first time that two African Americans have served simultaneously in the United States Senate.
Kamala Harris became California’s first African American senator on 3 January 2017, bringing the number of African Americans serving simultaneously to three. In January 2021 Raphael Warnock of Georgia won a run-off election to bring the total number of African American senators to 11. Kamala Harris became the first woman and the first African American elected as vice president of the United States in November 2020 and resigned her Senate seat on 18 January 2021.
List of African American Senators
- Hiram Revels of Mississippi – became the first African American senator in 1870.
- Blanche K. Bruce – Elected to the Senate in 1874 by the Mississippi state legislature, he served from 1875 to 1881, first African American to preside over the Senate in 1879.
- Edward Brooke of Massachusetts – first African American elected to the Senate by popular vote, served two full terms from 1967 to 1979.
- Carol Moseley Braun – served in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999 as a Democrat from Illinois, first female senator from Illinois and the first African American woman to serve in the Senate.
- Barack Obama – served in the Illinois state senate from 1997 to 2004, elected to the US Senate in November of 2004, he took the oath of office and became the fifth African American to serve in the Senate on January 3, 2005. On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected as the 44th president of the United States. He was reelected in 2012.
- Roland W. Burris – Appointed to the Senate on December 31, 2008, Burris filled the vacancy caused by the resignation of Barack Obama. He served in the Senate until November 29, 2010, a successor having been chosen in a special election.
- Tim Scott – Appointed to the Senate on January 2, 2013, Tim Scott (R-SC) became the first African American since Reconstruction to represent a southern state in the Senate. Elected as a Republican to the 112th Congress, Scott served one term in the House of Representatives before being appointed to the United States Senate.
- William “Mo” Cowan – The appointment of Massachusetts senator William “Mo” Cowan (D-MA) on February 1, 2013, marked the first time that two African Americans have served simultaneously in the United States Senate.
- Cory A. Booker – Cory Booker (D-NJ) became the first African American to represent New Jersey in the United States Senate on October 31, 2013.
- Kamala D. Harris – Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) became the first African American to represent California in the United States Senate on January 3, 2017. On November 3, 2020, she became the first woman and the first African American and Asian American elected vice president of the United States, on the ticket with former senator and vice president Joe Biden of Delaware.
- Raphael G. Warnock – Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA) became the first African American senator from Georgia on January 20, 2021.
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