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Black-American Representatives and Senators by State and Territory, 1870–Present

The table is supplemented by an interactive map of the United States and is based on information drawn from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. States are listed in alphabetical order. Names are followed by the year the Representative or Senator first took office.

Alabama

Alabama, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Benjamin Sterling Turner (1871) James Thomas Rapier (1873) Jeremiah Haralson (1875) Earl Frederick Hilliard (1993) Artur Davis (2003)	N/A

California

California, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins (1963) Ronald V. Dellums (1971) Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (1973) Julian Carey Dixon (1979) Mervyn Malcolm Dymally (1981) Maxine Waters (1991) Walter R. Tucker III (1993) Juanita Millender-McDonald (1996) Barbara Lee (1998) Diane Edith Watson (2001) Laura Richardson (2007)	N/A

Connecticut

Connecticut, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Gary A. Franks (1991)	N/A

District of Columbia

District of Columbia, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Walter Edward Fauntroy (1971) Eleanor Holmes Norton (1991)	N/A

Federal States of Micronesia

Federal States of Micronesia, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
N/A	N/A

Florida

Florida, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Josiah Thomas Walls (1871) Alcee Hastings (1993) Carrie P. Meek (1993) Corrine Brown (1993) Kendrick B. Meek (2003)	N/A

Georgia

Georgia, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Jefferson Franklin Long (1871) Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. (1973) John Lewis (1987) Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (1993) David Scott (2003) Denise L. Majette (2003) Cynthia Ann McKinney (2005) Hank Johnson (2007)	N/A

Illinois

Illinois, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Oscar Stanton De Priest (1929) Arthur Wergs Mitchell (1935) William Levi Dawson (1943) George Washington Collins (1970) Ralph Harold Metcalfe (1971) Cardiss Collins (1973) Bennett McVey Stewart (1979) Gus Savage (1981) Harold Washington (1981) Charles Arthur Hayes (1983) Bobby L. Rush (1993) Mel Reynolds (1993) Jesse Jackson, Jr. (1995) Danny K. Davis (1997)	Carol Moseley-Braun (1993) Barack Obama (2005) Roland Burris (2009)

Indiana

Indiana, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Katie Beatrice Hall (1982) Julia May Carson (1997) André Carson (2008)	N/A

Louisiana

Louisiana, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Charles Edmund Nash (1875) William J. Jefferson (1991) Cleo Fields (1993)	N/A

Marshall Islands

Marshall Islands, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
N/A	N/A

Maryland

Maryland, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Parren James Mitchell (1971) Kweisi Mfume (1987) Albert R. Wynn (1993) Elijah E. Cummings (1996) Donna F. Edwards (2008)	N/A

Massachusetts

Massachusetts, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
N/A	Edward William Brooke III (1967)

Michigan

Michigan, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. (1955) John Conyers, Jr. (1965) George William Crockett, Jr. (1980) Barbara-Rose Collins (1991) Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (1997)	N/A

Minnesota

Minnesota, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Keith Ellison (2007)	N/A

Mississippi

Mississippi, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
John Roy Lynch (1882) Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy (1987) Bennie Thompson (1993)	Hiram Rhodes Revels (1870) Blanche Kelso Bruce (1875)

Missouri

Missouri, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
William Lacy (Bill) Clay, Sr. (1969) Alan Dupree Wheat (1983) William L. Clay, Jr. (2001) Emanuel Cleaver II (2005)	N/A

New Jersey

New Jersey, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Donald M. Payne (1989)	N/A

New York

New York, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1945) Shirley A. Chisholm (1969) Charles B. Rangel (1971) Major Robert Odell Owens (1983) Edolphus Towns (1983) Alton R. Waldon, Jr. (1986) Floyd Harold Flake (1987) Gregory W. Meeks (1998) Yvette Diane Clarke (2007)	N/A

North Carolina

North Carolina, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
John Adams Hyman (1875) James Edward O’Hara (1883) Henry Plummer Cheatham (1889) George Henry White (1897) Eva M. Clayton (1992) Melvin L. Watt (1993) Frank W. Ballance, Jr. (2003) G. K. Butterfield (2004)	N/A

Ohio

Ohio, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Louis Stokes (1969) Stephanie Tubbs Jones (1999) Marcia L. Fudge (2008)	N/A

Oklahoma

Oklahoma, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Julius Caesar (J. C.) Watts, Jr. (1995)	N/A

Palau

Palau, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
N/A	N/A

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix, Sr. (1958) William Herbert Gray III (1979) Lucien Edward Blackwell (1991) Chaka Fattah (1995)	N/A

South Carolina

South Carolina, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Joseph Hayne Rainey (1870) Robert Brown Elliott (1871) Robert Carlos De Large (1871) Alonzo Jacob Ransier (1873) Richard Harvey Cain (1877) Robert Smalls (1884) Thomas Ezekiel Miller (1890) George Washington Murray (1896) James E. Clyburn (1993)	N/A

Tennessee

Tennessee, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Harold Eugene Ford, Sr. (1975) Harold Ford, Jr. (1997)	N/A

Texas

Texas, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Barbara Jordan (1973) George Thomas (Mickey) Leland (1979) Craig Anthony Washington (1989) Eddie Bernice Johnson (1993) Sheila Jackson Lee (1995) Al Green (2005)	N/A

Virgin Islands

Virgin Islands, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Melvin Herbert Evans (1979) Victor O. Frazer (1995) Donna M. Christensen (1997)	N/A

Virginia

Virginia, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
John Mercer Langston (1890) Robert C. Scott (1993)	N/A

Wisconsin

Wisconsin, Black-American Representatives and Senators by State

House	Senate
Gwendolynne S. (Gwen) Moore (2005)	N/A

Footnotes

1. The following states and territories have never elected an African American to Congress: Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming.