Congressman Wesley Hunt has represented the 38th Congressional District of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2023 (118th...
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John James
Congressman John James has represented Michigan’s 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2023 (118th...
Burgess Owens
Congressman Burgess Owens has represented Utah’s Fourth Congressional District since 2021 (117th Congress-Present) and serves as a member of the...
Byron Donalds
Congressman Byron Donalds has represented Florida's 19th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2021 (117th...
Tim Scott
Senator Tim Scott has served South Carolina in the United States Senate since 2013 (112th Congress-Present). Before his tenure in the Senate, he...
Allen West
Congressman Allen West represented Florida's 22nd Congressional District from 2011 to 2013 (112th Congress). West, a Republican politician and...
Ludmya Bourdeau (Mia) Love
Congresswoman Mia Love represented Utah's 4th Congressional District from 2015 to 2019 (114th-115th Congresses). She was the first African American...
William Ballard Hurd
Congressman William Hurd represented Texas' 23rd Congressional District from 2015 to 2021 (114th-116th Congresses). Between 2019 and 2021, Hurd was...
Julius Caesar (J.C.) Watts Jr.
Congressman J.C. Watts represented Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003 (104th-107th...
Gary A. Franks
Congressman Gary Franks served Connecticut's 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 1997 (102nd-104th...
Charles Edmund Nash
A former sergeant for the Union Army, Congressman Charles Nash was the first Black American to represent Louisiana in the U.S. House of...
Edward William Brooke III
Senator Edward Brooke represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate from 1967 to 1979 (90th-95th Congresses). Before coming to the Senate, Brooke...
Jeremiah Haralson
Congressman Jeremiah Haralson, enslaved until 1865, was one of three Black Americans from Alabama who served in the U.S. House of Representatives...
Melvin Herbert Evans
Congressman Melvin Evans, the first Black delegate to represent the U.S. Virgin Islands, was elected to Congress in 1978 and served through the 96th...
John Adams Hyman
Congressman John Hyman, enslaved until 1865, was the first Black American to represent North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving...
Robert Smalls
Congressman Robert Smalls represented South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1875 to 1879, 1882 to 1883, and from 1884 to 1887...
James Edward O’Hara
Congressman James O'Hara was the second African American to represent North Carolina in Congress, serving from 1883 to 1887 (48th-49th Congresses)...
George Washington Murray
Congressman George Murray represented South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1893 to 1895 and, after successfully contesting the...
Henry Plummer Cheatham
Congressman Henry Cheatham represented North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1889 to 1893 (51st-52nd Congresses) and was a member...
John Mercer Langston
Congressman John Langston was the first Black American to represent Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives. He served part of one term...
Thomas Ezekiel Miller
After successfully contesting another candidate's election, Congressman Thomas Miller represented South Carolina in the U.S. House of...