Roll Call: Black Members of Congress
Jasmine Crockett
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett has represented the 30th Congressional District of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2023 (118th Congress-Present). Crockett serves on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House Committee on the...
Valerie Foushee
Congresswoman Valerie Foushee has represented the 4th Congressional District of North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2023 (118th Congress-Present). Before first running for elected office, Foushee worked as an administrator for the Chapel Hill...
Ritchie Torres
Congressman Ritchie Torres represents New York's 15th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives (January 3, 2021-Present). Torres serves on the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist...
Donald Payne Jr.
Congressman Donald Payne Jr. represented New Jersey's 10th Congressional District from 2012 until his death on April 6, 2024 (112th-118th Congresses). Payne was first elected by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Representative...
Frederica Wilson
Congresswoman Frederica Wilson has represented Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2011 (112th Congress-Present). Before Congress, Wilson was an educator who served in the Florida State House of Representatives and the Florida State Senate. There she...
Cory Anthony Booker
Senator Cory Booker has served the state of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate since 2013 (113th Congress-Present). Before Congress, Booker was mayor of Newark, New Jersey and served on the Newark City Council. Booker sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee; the Foreign...
Hakeem Jeffries
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries has represented New York's 8th Congressional District since 2013 (113th Congress-Present). He was elected Democratic Leader in November 2022. In that capacity, Jeffries is the highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives. In...
Marc Veasey
Congressman Marc Veasey has represented Texas' 33rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2013 (113th Congress-Present). He serves on the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Veasey founded the first Congressional Voting Rights Caucus to...
William (Mo) Cowan
Senator William Mo Cowan served Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate from 2013 to 2015 (113th Congress). Cowan was appointed to the Senate by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick on February 1, 2013, to succeed Senator John Kerry, who had resigned to become Secretary of...
Steven Horsford
Congressman Steven Horsford has represented Nevada's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2019 (116th Congress-Present), a seat he held previously during the 113th Congress (2013-2015). Before Congress, Horsford led the Culinary...
Cedric Richmond
Congressman Cedric Richmond represented Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2021 (112th-117th Congresses). Richmond served on the Homeland Security Committee, where he was chair of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity,...
Roland Burris
Senator Roland Burris represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate from 2009 to 2010. Governor Rod Blagojevich selected Burris to fill the unexpired term of then-President-elect Barack Obama on December 31, 2008. Burris served on the Armed Services, Homeland Security and...
Barack Obama
Barack Obama was the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Obama was the first African American President of the United States. Obama was a U.S. Senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. Before Congress,...
Donna F. Edwards
Congresswoman Donna Edwards represented Maryland's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2008 to 2017. (110th-114th Congresses). She was the first African American woman to represent Maryland. Before serving in Congress, Edwards was the...
André Carson
Congressman André Carson has represented Indiana's 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2008 (110th Congress-Present). Before taking office, Carson served on the Indianapolis City-County Council and worked full-time in law enforcement....
Hank Johnson
Congressman Hank Johnson has represented Georgia's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2007 (110th Congress-Present). Johnson is a member of the Judiciary Committee. His Judiciary subcommittee assignments include Courts, Intellectual...
Yvette Diane Clarke
Congresswoman Yvette Clarke has represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2007 (109th Congress-Present). Before her election to the U.S. House of Representatives, Clarke was a New York City Council member. She was first elected to city service in...
Laura Richardson
Congresswoman Laura Richardson represented California's 37th Congressional District California in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013 (110th-112th Congresses). Richardson set a record of distinction in having served all three levels of...