List of African American Republicans

The following is an alphabetically ordered list of notable African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

Republicans
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

, past and present. This list is limited to black Americans who have worked in a direct, professional capacity in politics.

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Claude Allen
Claude Allen
Claude Alexander Allen was the Assistant to the President of the United States for Domestic Policy in George W. Bush's White House and a withdrawn Bush judicial nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The African-American Republican was appointed to his White House...

, former White House Domestic Policy Advisor
Renee Amoore
Renee Amoore
Renee Amoore R.N. is a health care advocate and the founder and president of The Amoore Group, Inc.- Biography :...

, health care advocate & founder and president of The Amoore Group, Inc.; former candidate for Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
The Republican National Committee is an American political committee that provides national leadership for the Republican Party of the United States. It is responsible for developing and promoting the Republican political platform, as well as coordinating fundraising and election strategy. It is...

Co-Chairwoman

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J. Kenneth Blackwell
Ken Blackwell
John Kenneth Blackwell is an American politician and activist who served as the mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio from 1979 to 1980 and Ohio Secretary of State from 1999 to 2007. A Republican, he was the first African-American to be the candidate for governor of a major party in Ohio. In 2006, Blackwell...

, former Secretary of State of Ohio, former gubernatorial candidate
Lynette Boggs
Lynette Boggs
Lynette Boggs was a Republican politician in Clark County, Nevada, and a former winner of the Miss Oregon scholarship pageant. She went by the name of Lynette Boggs McDonald for most of her political career and dropped McDonald following a divorce....

, former Las Vegas City Councilwoman, former Clark County, NV commissioner, former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives
Peter Boulware
Peter Boulware
Peter Nicholas Boulware , is a former American football linebacker who played his whole NFL career for the Baltimore Ravens. He was a Republican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives, District 9. His younger brother, Michael Boulware, a strong safety is currently a free agent.-Early...

, former NFL linebacker and Republican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives, District 9.
Jennette Bradley
Jennette Bradley
-Personal life:Jennette Bradley , her family would settle in a neighborhood on Columbus' east side, after her father retired from the United States Army. Bradley graduated from East High School in 1970...

, former Treasurer of the State of Ohio
Edward Brooke
Edward Brooke
Edward William Brooke, III is an American politician and was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican from Massachusetts in 1966, defeating his Democratic opponent, Endicott Peabody, 60.7%–38.7%...

, former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, first African American elected by popular vote to the U.S. Senate
Stephen Broden
Stephen Broden
Stephen Broden is a former Republican political candidate from the state of Texas in the for the U.S. House. He was defeated by Democratic incumbent Eddie Bernice Johnson...

, conservative commentator, Life Always board member (a pro-life
Pro-life
Opposition to the legalization of abortion is centered around the pro-life, or anti-abortion, movement, a social and political movement opposing elective abortion on moral grounds and supporting its legal prohibition or restriction...

organization) and evangelical pastor
Janice Rogers Brown
Janice Rogers Brown
Janice Rogers Brown is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She previously was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, holding that post from May 2, 1996 until her appointment to the D.C. Circuit.President George W. Bush...

, a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals
Blanche Bruce
Blanche Bruce
Blanche Kelso Bruce was a U.S. politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1875 to 1881 and was the first elected African-American senator to serve a full term. Hiram R. Revels, also of Mississippi, was the first to ever serve in the U.S...

, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate
Keith Butler, Republican national committeeman from Michigan, former councilman for Detroit, minister and former U.S. Senatorial candidate

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Herman Cain
Herman Cain
Herman Cain is a candidate for the 2012 U.S. Republican Party presidential nomination.Cain has a background as a business executive, syndicated columnist, and radio host from Georgia. He served as chairman and CEO of Godfather's Pizza from 1986 to 1996...

, businessman, media personality, and candidate for President of the United States
Jennifer Carroll
Jennifer Carroll
Jennifer Carroll is a Trinidadian-born American politician who is the 18th and current Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Florida. The first African American and the first woman elected to the position, she assumed the office on January 4, 2011...

, Lieutenant Governor of Florida
Ron Christie
Ron Christie
Ronald I. "Ron" Christie is an American government relations expert and Republican political strategist, who has also worked as a member of former Vice President Dick Cheney's staff. He is also the author of two books, and an occasional guest on various cable news programs. He serves as an Adjunct...

, former advisor to Vice-President Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney served as the 46th Vice President of the United States , under George W. Bush....
Octavius Valentine Catto, civil rights activist and African American baseball pioneer
Henry P. Cheatham
Henry P. Cheatham
Henry Plummer Cheatham was an African American Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1893.-Early life:...

, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver better known as Eldridge Cleaver, was a leading member of the Black Panther Party and a writer...

, author and civil rights leader
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. was the fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, from March 7, 1975 to January 20, 1977, and the second African American to serve in the Cabinet...

, fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, first African American Supreme Court Clerk
Ward Connerly
Ward Connerly
Wardell Anthony "Ward" Connerly is an American political activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent . He is also the founder and the chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, a national non-profit organization in opposition to racial and gender preferences...

, political activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent

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Oscar Stanton de Priest
Oscar Stanton De Priest
Oscar Stanton De Priest was an American lawmaker and civil rights advocate who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1929 to 1935. He was the first African American to be elected to Congress in the 20th century....

, former U.S. Representative from Illinois
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing...

, abolitionist, editor, orator, author, and statesman
Rilk Dacleu Idrac
Rilk Dacleu Idrac
Rilk Wilfrith Dacleu Idrac is an African-American executive currently serving at Mubadala Development Company board following his appointment as Advisor on September 2010. On December 2010, M...

, Corporate Executive, activist, and Member of Republican Abroad

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Larry Elder
Larry Elder
Laurence Allen "Larry" Elder is an American radio and television personality. His radio program The Larry Elder Show airs weekdays 9 AM to noon on talk radio 790 KABC in Los Angeles, California...

, talk radio host and commentator
Robert Brown Elliott, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
Melvin H. Evans
Melvin H. Evans
Melvin Herbert Evans was the first elected Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, serving from 1969 to 1975. After serving as governor he was delegate from the United States Virgin Islands to the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1981.Evans was born in Christiansted in...

, former U.S. Representative from, and former Governor of, the U.S. Virgin Islands

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James L. Farmer, Jr.
James L. Farmer, Jr.
James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was a civil rights activist and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride, which eventually led to the desegregation of inter-state transportation in the United States.In 1942, Farmer co-founded the Committee...

, civil rights leader
Michel Faulkner
Michel Faulkner
Michel J. Faulkner is a former New York Jets football player and was the 2010 Republican nominee for U.S. Representative for . He is the pastor for New Horizon Church in New York City.- Early life and education :...

, pastor, former defensive lineman for the New York Jets
New York Jets
The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

, a 2010 nominee for New York's 15th congressional district
New York's 15th congressional district
New York's 15th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in New York City. It is composed of Upper Manhattan, Rikers Island and a largely non-residential section of northwestern Queens on the shore of the East River mostly occupied...
Arthur Fletcher
Arthur Fletcher
Arthur Fletcher was an American government official, widely referred to as the "father of affirmative action" as he was largely responsible for the Revised Philadelphia Plan....

, official in the administrations of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush; considered the "father of affirmative action
Affirmative action
Affirmative action refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group, usually as a means to counter the effects of a history of discrimination.-Origins:The term...

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Gary Franks
Gary Franks
Gary A. Franks was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut for six years, from 1991 until 1997. He was the first and to date only African-American elected to Congress from Connecticut.-Early life:...

, former U.S. Representative from Connecticut
Ryan Frazier
Ryan Frazier
Ryan L. Frazier is a United States politician who is running for Mayor of Aurora, Colorado. He is a member of the Aurora City Council and was the 2010 Republican candidate for United States House of Representatives Colorado's 7th congressional district...

, Aurora City Councilman, 2010 nominee for Colorado's 7th congressional district
Colorado's 7th congressional district
Colorado's 7th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Colorado. Located in the central part of the state, the district encompasses much of the northern parts of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area, including the suburbs of Lakewood, Arvada, and Aurora as well as the...
Samuel B. Fuller
Samuel B. Fuller
S. B. Fuller was an American entrepreneur. He was founder and president of the Fuller Products Company, publisher of the New York Age and Pittsburgh Courier, head of the South Side Chicago NAACP, president of the National Negro Business League, and a prominent black Republican.S.B...

, founder and president of the Fuller Products Company, publisher of the New York Age
New York Age
The New York Age was a black newspaper from 1887 to 1953, and was one of the most influential black newspapers of its time.The paper had it origins as the weekly New York Globe , an African-American newspaper, that was published weekly from at least 1880 to November 8, 1884...

and Pittsburgh Courier
Pittsburgh Courier
The Pittsburgh Courier was an American newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which was published from 1907 to 1965. Once the country's most widely circulated Black newspaper, the legacy and influence of the Pittsburgh Courier is unparalleled.A pillar of the Black Press, it rose...

, head of the South Side Chicago NAACP, president of the National Negro Business League
National Negro Business League
The National Negro Business League was an American organization founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1900 by Booker T. Washington, with the support of Andrew Carnegie...

, and a prominent black Republican

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Jeremiah Haralson
Jeremiah Haralson
Jeremiah Haralson , was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama.-Early life and education:Born on a plantation near Columbus, Georgia, he was raised as a slave and was self-educated. He moved to Alabama and engaged in agricultural pursuits...

, former U.S. Representative from Alabama
Ted Hayes
Ted Hayes
Theodore "Ted" Hayes, Jr. is an American advocate for the homeless and an activist.Hayes' activism began in January 1985, when Justiceville, a community of homeless people in Los Angeles, was founded. It survived for five months, until authorities moved to shut down the shantytown. When they did,...

, activist for the homeless
Amy Holmes
Amy Holmes
Amy M. Holmes is a news anchor on Glenn Beck's GBTV. She formerly was an independent political contributor for CNN and has appeared on Fox News. She has also appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher several times. Holmes graduated from Princeton University with a BA in economics in 1994...

, CNN political commentator and independent social conservative
T.R.M. Howard, Mississippi civil rights leader, surgeon, entrepreneur and mentor to Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi...

and Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader....
John Adams Hyman
John Adams Hyman
John Adams Hyman was a Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina from 1875 to 1877.Born a slave near Warrenton, North Carolina, Hyman was sold to a new master in Alabama in 1861 after it was discovered that he was attempting to educate himself...

, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina

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Alphonso Jackson
Alphonso Jackson
Alphonso Jackson served as the 13th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development . He was nominated by President George W. Bush on January 28, 2004 and unanimously confirmed by the Senate on March 31, 2004. On March 31, 2008, Jackson announced his resignation, effective April 18,...

, thirteenth Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Raynard Jackson
Raynard Jackson
Raynard Jackson is a Republican political consultant based in Washington, DC. He has been involved in every Republican presidential campaign from George H. W. Bush to George W. Bush. He has also worked on many Republican senate, governor, and congressional campaigns across the country.He is the...

, political consultant and political analyst for WUSA*9 TV (CBS affiliate) in Washington, DC
Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson
Mildred Fay Jefferson
Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson was an American physician and pro-life activist and the first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School....

, first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....

; pro-life
Pro-life
Opposition to the legalization of abortion is centered around the pro-life, or anti-abortion, movement, a social and political movement opposing elective abortion on moral grounds and supporting its legal prohibition or restriction...

movement leader; Republican candidate for U.S. House and U.S. Senate
Wallace B. Jefferson
Wallace B. Jefferson
Wallace Bernard Jefferson is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. His current term ends on December 31, 2014.- Historic judicial appointments and election :Jefferson has three times made Texas judicial history...

, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas

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Alan Keyes
Alan Keyes
Alan Lee Keyes is an American conservative political activist, author, former diplomat, and perennial candidate for public office. A doctoral graduate of Harvard University, Keyes began his diplomatic career in the U.S...

, former member of the Republican party and nominee for the U.S. Senate

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John Mercer Langston
John Mercer Langston
John Mercer Langston was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, and political activist. He was the first dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department. He was the first president of what is now Virginia State University. In 1888 he was the first African...

, former U.S. Representative from Virginia
Jefferson Franklin Long, former U.S. Representative from Georgia
John Roy Lynch, former U.S. Representative from Mississippi

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Lenny McAllister
Lenny McAllister
Lenny McAllister is a conservative American political commentator for a number of newspapers and websites, including AOL and The Root.-Early life:...

, political analyst, community activist, and author
Angela McGlowan
Angela McGlowan
Angela McGlowan is a political commentator and CEO of Political Strategies & Insights , a government affairs, political strategy, public relations, and advocacy consulting firm based in Oxford, Mississippi, with an office in Washington, D.C...

, political analyst
James Meredith
James Meredith
James H. Meredith is an American civil rights movement figure, a writer, and a political adviser. In 1962, he was the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi, an event that was a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement. Motivated by President...

, civil rights leader
Thomas Ezekiel Miller
Thomas E. Miller
Thomas Ezekiel Miller was an American politician, educator, and lawyer. An African-American from South Carolina, he was a prominent leader in the struggle for civil rights in the American South during and after Reconstruction. He was a school commissioner, state legislator, U.S...

, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
George Washington Murray
George W. Murray
George Washington Murray was born a slave and served as a Congressman from South Carolina.He was born a slave near Rembert, Sumter County, South Carolina on September 22, 1853. Murray attended the public schools and the University of South Carolina at Columbia for two years...

, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
E. Frederic Morrow
E. Frederic Morrow
E. Frederic Morrow was the first African American to hold an executive position at the White House. He served President Dwight Eisenhower as Administrative Officer for Special Projects from 1955 to 1961. His brother was Ambassador John H...

, first African-American to hold an executive position at the White House. He served under President Dwight D. Eisenhower as Administrative Officer for Special Projects from 1955 to 1961.
Steven Mullins
Steven Mullins
Steven R. Mullins is a Connecticut politician from West Haven. On July 26, 2011, he accepted the Republican nomination for Mayor of West Haven. He faces three term incumbent Democrat mayor John M. Picard. This is the second time Mullins has challenged Picard...

, Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...

politician, Planning & Zoning Commissioner, City of West Haven
West Haven
- Places :Australia:* West Haven, New South WalesNew Zealand:* Westhaven suburb, in Auckland* Westhaven Marina, in the suburb of the same name, in AucklandUnited States:* Westhaven, California * West Haven, Connecticut* West Haven, Oregon...

, 2009 Republican nominee for Mayor of West Haven, 2002 Republican nominee for State Comptroller
Comptroller
A comptroller is a management level position responsible for supervising the quality of accounting and financial reporting of an organization.In British government, the Comptroller General or Comptroller and Auditor General is in most countries the external auditor of the budget execution of the...

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Charles Edmund Nash, former U.S Representative from Louisiana
Constance Berry Newman
Constance Berry Newman
Constance Ernestine Berry Newman was the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 2004 to April 2005.-Early life:...

, U.S. diplomat; former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; member of International Republican Institute
International Republican Institute
Founded in 1983, the International Republican Institute is an organization, funded by the United States government, that conducts international political programs, sometimes labeled 'democratization programs'....

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Rod Paige
Rod Paige
Roderick Raynor "Rod" Paige served as the 7th United States Secretary of Education from 2001 to 2005. Paige, who grew up in Mississippi, built a career on a belief that education equalizes opportunity, moving from classroom teacher to college dean and school superintendent to be the first African...

, seventh U.S. Secretary of Education
Sherman Parker
Sherman Parker
Sherman Parker was a former member of the Missouri House of Representatives. He was a Republican who represented part of St. Charles County for two terms. He was elected to the House in 2002 election and was re-elected in 2004 with 73% of the vote.Mr...

, Missouri state representative, ran for U.S. House of Representatives
Edward J. Perkins
Edward J. Perkins
Edward Joseph Perkins is a former American diplomat. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, and the United Nations 1992-1993. He was later Director of the US State Department's Diplomatic Corps....

, first African-American U.S. ambassador to South Africa
Jesse Lee Peterson
Jesse Lee Peterson
Jesse Lee Peterson is president and founder of The Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny , an American group dedicated to a conservative agenda among African Americans. Rev. Peterson is also the Founder and President of BOND Action, Inc., a nonprofit, 501 organization. He has hosted a cable...

, civil rights activist, founder of Brotherhood of New Destiny
Pio Pico
Pío Pico
Pío de Jesús Pico was the last Governor of Alta California under Mexican rule.-Origins:...

, last governor of Mexican California. Formed the Republican Party in California.
Samuel Pierce
Samuel Pierce
Samuel Riley Pierce, Jr. was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.-Early life:Pierce was an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. Pierce was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha social fraternity and Alpha Phi Omega service...

, former HUD Secretary
P. B. S. Pinchback
P. B. S. Pinchback
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback was the first non-white and first person of African American descent to become governor of a U.S. state...

, twenty-fourth governor of Louisiana; first African-American governor of a U.S. state
Colin Powell
Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African American to serve in that position. During his military...

, 65th United States Secretary of State
Michael Powell
Michael Powell (politician)
Michael Kevin Powell is an American Republican politician and lobbyist. He is the incoming president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association . He was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission by President Bill Clinton on 3 November 1997. President George W. Bush designated...

, 24th Chairman of the FCC
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Pierre-Richard Prosper is an American lawyer, prosecutor and former government official. He served as the second United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues under President George W...

, former Bush Administration war crimes official

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Joseph H. Rainey, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina, first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives
James T. Rapier
James T. Rapier
James Thomas Rapier was a United States Representative from 1873 until 1875. He was one of Alabama's three black congressmen during Reconstruction....

, former U.S. Representative from Alabama
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate. Because he preceded any African American in the House, he was the first African American in the U.S. Congress as well. He represented Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during Reconstruction...

, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush...

, 66th United States Secretary of State
Jack E. Robinson III
Jack E. Robinson III
Jack E. Robinson III is an African-American Republican politician from Massachusetts. He ran for the United States Senate in 2000 against Ted Kennedy and Carla Howell , losing to Kennedy. He ran for Secretary of the Commonwealth in 2002 losing to William F...

, former U.S. Senate, Secretary of State, and U.S. House nominee from Massachusetts
Vernon Robinson
Vernon Robinson
Vernon Lucius Robinson is an American candidate for U.S. Congress and former Winston Salem City Council member. He is known for two unsuccessful Congressional campaigns...

, former candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina
Joe Rogers
Joe Rogers
Joseph B. Rogers is a politician who was the youngest Lieutenant Governor in Colorado history.Rogers is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity....

, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, youngest Lieutenant Governor in Colorado history
Carson Ross
Carson Ross
Carson Ross is the mayor of Blue Springs, Missouri. He is the first African American mayor of Blue Springs. He is a Republican. Prior to becoming mayor he was a state representative. Also responsible for purchasing two David Cook signs valued at $6,000 each.- References :...

Mayor of Blue Springs, MO, Fmr. Missouri State Rep
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was the first black Major League Baseball player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947...

, Baseball player

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Paul H. Scott
Paul H. Scott
Paul Scott is an American politician from Grand Blanc, Michigan. A member of the Michigan State House of Representatives, Scott was recalled on November 8, 2011.-Early Life:Scott graducated from Grand Blanc High School in 2000...

, Michigan State Representative
Tim Scott
Tim Scott (politician)
Timothy Eugene "Tim" Scott is the U.S. Representative for . Elected in November 2010 to the 112th Congress, he and Allen West of Florida are the first Republican African-American Representatives from the South since Reconstruction, and the first Republican African-American members of Congress...

. Representative, South Carolina's 1st Congressional District
South Carolina's 1st congressional district
The 1st Congressional District of South Carolina is a coastal congressional district in South Carolina. It stretches from Seabrook Island in the south to the North Carolina border and includes parts of Charleston, Dorchester, Berkeley and Georgetown counties and all of Horry county...
Robert Smalls
Robert Smalls
Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician. He freed himself and his family from slavery on May 13, 1862, by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, the Planter, to freedom in Charleston harbor...

, South Carolina
Joshua I. Smith
Joshua I. Smith
Joshua I. Smith is an Afro-American businessman and former chairperson of the Commission on Minority Business Development....

, appointed commissioner of Minority Business Development by President George H. W. Bush
DeForest "Buster" Soaries
DeForest Soaries
Reverend DeForest Blake "Buster" Soaries, Jr. is an African-American Baptist minister, Republican Party politician, author and public advocate, from Montclair, New Jersey. He is the former Secretary of State of New Jersey and former chairman of the federal Election Assistance Commission...

, former New Jersey Secretary of State
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National Humanities Medal winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a libertarian perspective...

, economist, writer and commentator
Michael S. Steele
Michael S. Steele
Michael Stephen Steele is an American politician who served as the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee from January 2009 until January 2011. From 2003 to 2007, he was the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, the first African American elected to statewide...

, political commentator, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, former candidate for the U.S. Senate and elected chairman of the Republican National Committee
Lynn Swann
Lynn Swann
-Collegiate:Swann attended the University of Southern California, where he was an All-American on the Trojans football team. He played under legendary coach John McKay, including the 1972 undefeated and national championship season. McKay said of Swann, "He has speed, soft hands, and grace." He...

, former NFL player, former Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate

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Noel C. Taylor
Noel C. Taylor
Noel Calvin Taylor was the mayor of Roanoke, Virginia from 1975 to 1992. He was widely considered one of the most influential leaders in the city's history....

, mayor of Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke is an independent city in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. state of Virginia and is the tenth-largest city in the Commonwealth. It is located in the Roanoke Valley of the Roanoke Region of Virginia. The population within the city limits was 97,032 as of 2010...

from 1975 to 1992
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court....

, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, she...

, abolitionist speaker and suffrage advocate
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Harriet Ross; (1820 – 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue more than 70 slaves...

, abolitionist speaker and suffrage advocate

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William T. Vernon
William Tecumseh Vernon
Bishop William Tecumseh Vernon was an American minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, president of Western University beginning in 1896, and Register of the Treasury from 1906 to 1911.-Biography:...

, Register of the Treasury
Register of the Treasury
The Register of the Treasury was an office of the United States Treasury Department. In 1919, the Register became the Public Debt Service which, in 1940, became the Bureau of the Public Debt....

under President Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

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Dale Wainwright
Dale Wainwright
Dale Wainwright is an Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. He was first elected to a six-year term on the Court in November 2002, and he was reelected in 2008 to a term that will end in 2014. He replaced Deborah Hankinson on the Court....

, Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court
Josiah Walls, former U.S. Representative from Florida, and one of the first African-Americans to serve in the U.S. House
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and political leader. He was the dominant figure in the African-American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915...

, educator and activist
Maurice Washington
Maurice Washington
Maurice Washington was a Republican member of the Nevada Senate, representing Washoe County District 2 .-External links:* official government website* profile*Follow the Money - Maurice Washington** campaign contributions...

, Nevada State Senator
J. C. Watts, former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African American journalist, newspaper editor and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the United States, showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who...

, civil rights advocate, co-founder of the NAACP
Allen West
Allen West (former U.S. military officer)
Allen Bernard West is a Republican U.S. Representative who represents , serving since January 2011. He is the first African-American Republican Congressman from Florida since Josiah T. Walls left office in 1876 near the end of Reconstruction.West served in the United States Army in Iraq and was a...

, Representative, U.S. House of Representatives (FL-22)
J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr.
J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr.
Jesse Ernest Wilkins, Sr. was a notable African American lawyer, labor leader and undersecretary in the Eisenhower administration.- Education and early career :...

, Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Eisenhower
Armstrong Williams
Armstrong Williams
Armstrong Williams is an African American political commentator, author of a conservative newspaper column, and host of a daily radio show and a nationally syndicated TV program, called The Right Side with Armstrong Williams. From 2004 to 2007, he co-hosted a daily radio program with Sam...

, radio and television commentator
Michael L. Williams
Michael L. Williams
Michael Lawrence Williams is a former member of the elected Texas Railroad Commission, a regulatory body over, not railroads, but the oil and natural gas industries. Williams is the first African American to hold a statewide elected executive office in Texas history. He was appointed to the...

, Texas Railroad Commissioner
Walter E. Williams
Walter E. Williams
Walter E. Williams, is an American economist, commentator, and academic. He is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, as well as a syndicated columnist and author known for his libertarian views.- Early life and education :Williams family during childhood...

, author, commentator, economist
Vern Williams
Vern Williams
Vern Williams is generally accepted as the father of bluegrass music on the West Coast of the United States....

, member of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel

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William F. Yardley
William F. Yardley
William Francis Yardley was an American attorney, politician and civil rights advocate, operating primarily out of Knoxville, Tennessee, in the late 19th century. He was Tennessee's first African American gubernatorial candidate, and is believed to have been the first African American attorney to...

, anti-segregation advocate, first African American candidate for governor of Tennessee (1876)

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