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Rep. Jeremiah Haralson (R-AL)

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Representative of Alabama's First Congressional District from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1877 (44th Congress)

First’colored’senator and representatives – in the 41st and 42nd Congresses of the United States

Origins of the Congressional Black Caucus

Group portrait of African American legislators from the 41st and 42nd Congresses: Rep. Robert DeLarge (R-SC), Rep. Jefferson Long (R-GA), Sen. Hiram Revels (R-MS), Rep. Benjamin Turner (R-AL), Rep. Josiah Walls (R-FL), Rep. Joseph Rainy (R-SC), and Rep. Robert Elliot...

Rep. Richard H. Cain (R-SC)

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Representative of South Carolina from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875 and from March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1879 (43rd and 45th Congresses)

Rep. Ronald V. Dellums (D-CA)

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Representative of California's Eighth Congressional District from January 3, 1971 to February 6, 1998 (92nd-105th Congresses)

Rep. Alonzo J. Ransier (R-SC)

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Representative of South Carolina's Second Congressional District from March 3, 1873 to March 3, 1875 (43rd Congress)

Rep. William L. Clay Sr. (D-MO)

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Representative of Missouri's First Congressional District from January 3, 1969 to January 3, 2001 (91st-106th Congresses)

Rep. Robert N.C. Nix Sr. (D-PA)

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Representative of Pennsylvania's Second Congressional District from June 4, 1958 to January 3, 1979 (85th-95th Congresses)

Rep. Henry P. Cheatham (R-NC)

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Representative of North Carolina's Second Congressional District from March 4, 1889 to March 3, 1893 (51st-52nd Congresses)

CBC members meet with President Ronald Reagan at the White House

Origins of the Congressional Black Caucus

Left to Right: Rep. John Conyers Jr., Rep Shirley Chisholm, Vice President George Bush, Rep. George Leland, Rep. Charles Rangel, Rep. Julian Dixon, Rep. Augustus Hawkins, Rep. George Crockett Jr., Rep. Parren Mitchell, Rep. William clay Sr., Rep. Mervyn Dymally, Del....

Sen. Hiram R. Revels (R-MS)

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Mississippi Senator from February 25, 1870 to March 3, 1871 (41st Congress) First black Member of Congress, first black Senator, first black Republican elected to Congress, first black Member of Congress from Mississippi