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The following is an alphabetically ordered list of notable African American Republicans, past and present.
Contents: Top · 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Akindele Akinyemi, CEO of One Network and Conservative Educator
- Claude Allen, former White House Domestic Policy Advisor
- Renee Amoore, health care advocate & founder and president of The Amoore Group, Inc.; former candidate for RNC Co-Chairwoman
B
- Pearl Bailey, singer and actress
- Martin D Baker, Republican Candidate for US Congress in Missouri's First(2010) and Fifth Districts(2008)
- J. Kenneth Blackwell, former Secretary of State of Ohio, former gubernatorial candidate
- Lynette Boggs, former Las Vegas City Councilwoman, former Clark County, NV commissioner, former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives
- Peter Boulware, former NFL linebacker and Republican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives, District 9.
- Jennette Bradley, former Treasurer of the State of Ohio
- Edward Brooke, former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, first African American elected by popular vote to the U.S. Senate
- Janice Rogers Brown, a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals
- Blanche Bruce, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate
- Victoria Buckley, former Colorado Secretary of State [1]
- Keith Butler, Republican national committeeman from Michigan, former councilman for Detroit, minister and former U.S. Senatorial candidate
C
- Herman Cain, businessman and media personality
- Jennifer Carroll, Florida State Representative [2]
- Clarence H. Carter, Director of the District of Columbia’s Department of Human Services, former administration official under President George W. Bush [3]
- Octavius Valentine Catto, civil rights activist and African American baseball pioneer
- Henry P. Cheatham, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina
- Eldridge Cleaver, author and civil rights leader
- William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, first African American Supreme Court Clerk [4] [5] [6]
- Ward Connerly, political activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent
- Stanley Crouch, American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist
Frank G. Cousins, Jr., Sheriff, Essex County, Ma.
D
- Oscar Stanton de Priest, former U.S. Representative from Illinois
- Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor, orator, author, and statesman
- Clyde Drexler, former professional basketball player
E
- Larry Elder, talk radio host and commentator
- Robert Brown Elliott, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- Melvin H. Evans, former U.S. Representative from, and former Governor of, the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Charles Evers, civil-rights leader in Mississippi, brother of Medgar Evers
F
- James L. Farmer, Jr., civil rights leader
- Arthur Fletcher, official in the administrations of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush; considered the "father of affirmative action"
- Gary Franks, former U.S. Representative from Connecticut
- Ryan Frazier, Aurora City Councilman, Candidate for United States Senate elections in Colorado, 2010
- Samuel B. Fuller, 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
G
- Paul R. Green, Jr., retired Senior Master Sergeant, U.S. Air Force, Businessman, former candidate California State Senate
H
- Jeremiah Haralson, former U.S. Representative from Alabama
- Erika Harold, Miss America 2003
- James T Harris, radio talk-show host from Milwaukee, Wisc.
- Ted Hayes, activist for the homeless
- Jean Howard-Hill, national chair, NRAAC, National Republican African American Caucus
- John Adams Hyman, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina
I
- Niger Innis, commentator and activist
J
- Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Raynard Jackson, political consultant and political analyst for WUSA*9 TV (CBS affiliate) in Washington, DC
- Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson, first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School; pro-life movement leader; Republican candidate for U.S. House and U.S. Senate [7]
- Wallace B. Jefferson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
- Timothy F. Johnson, Ph.D., Chairman, Buncombe County Republican Party North Carolina
- Justin Jordan, President of Texas College Republicans, Conservative activist
K
- Alan Keyes, former member of the Republican party and nominee for the U.S. Senate.
- Alveda King, former member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist minister, political activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement
- Don King, boxing promoter
- Yaphet Kotto, actor
L
- John Mercer Langston, former U.S. Representative from Virginia
- Jefferson Franklin Long, former U.S. Representative from Georgia
- John Roy Lynch, former U.S. Representative from Mississippi
M
- Karl Malone, former professional basketball player
- Angela McGlowan, political analyst
- Henry E. McKoy, former North Carolina State Senator, former Peace Corps Africa Director, 2002-2009
- Donald K. McLaurin, mayor of Trotwood, Ohio [8]
- James Meredith, civil rights leader
- Thomas Ezekiel Miller, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- George Washington Murray, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- Steven Mullins, Connecticut politician, First African American nominee for State Comptroller in state history. West Haven Commissioner.
N
- Charles Edmund Nash, former U.S Representative from Louisiana
- Constance Berry Newman, U.S. diplomat; former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; member of International Republican Institute
- Dr. Belinda Noah, attorney, law professor, and 2006 candidate for the Florida United States Senate
O
P
- Rod Paige, seventh U.S. Secretary of Education
- Gregory Parker, Comal County Commissioner, Commissioner Texas State Commission on Emergency Communications
- Sherman Parker, Missouri state representative, running for U.S. House of Representatives
- Star Parker, author, activist, and founder of CURE
- Edward J. Perkins, first African-American U.S. ambassador to South Africa
- Jesse Lee Peterson, civil rights activist, founder of Brotherhood of New Destiny
- Joseph C. Phillips, actor and commentator
- Samuel Pierce, former HUD Secretary
- P. B. S. Pinchback, twenty-fourth governor of Louisiana; first African-American governor of a U.S. state
- Homer Plessy, plaintiff in Plessy v. Ferguson
- Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State
- Pierre-Richard Prosper, former Bush Administration war crimes official
Q
- Kristal C. Quarker, Health and Education Policy Advisor to Representative Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI-11), 2008 Chairwoman of the Black Republican Congressional Staff Association
R
- 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, former U.S. Representative from Alabama
- Hiram Rhodes Revels, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate
- Condoleezza Rice, sixty-sixth U.S. Secretary of State
- Frances Rice, Chairman of National Black Republican Association
- Jackie Robinson, first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era
- Jack E. Robinson II, Boston-area businessman, civil rights activist
- Jack E. Robinson III, former U.S. Senate, Secretary of State, and U.S. House nominee from Massachusetts
- Vernon Robinson, former candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina
- Angel Joy Rocker, former candidate for President [9]
- Joe Rogers, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, youngest Lieutenant Governor in Colorado history
- Carson Ross Mayor of Blue Springs, MO, Fmr. Missouri State Rep.
S
- Robert Smalls, South Carolina
- Joshua I. Smith, appointed commissioner of Minority Business Development by President George H. W. Bush
- DeForest "Buster" Soaries, former New Jersey Secretary of State
- Thomas Sowell, economist, writer and commentator
- Michael S. Steele, political commentator, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, former candidate for the U.S. Senate and elected chairman of the Republican National Committee.
- Sage Steele, television sports anchor
- Lynn Swann, former NFL player, former Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate
T
- Noel C. Taylor - Mayor of Roanoke, Virginia from 1975 to 1992.[10]
- Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Sojourner Truth, abolitionist speaker and suffrage advocate
U
- Sheryl Underwood, comedienne and entertainer
- James L. Usry, former mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey
V
- William T. Vernon, Registrar of the Treasury under President Theodore Roosevelt [11]
W
- Dale Wainwright, Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court
- Jimmie Walker, actor and comedian
- Eric M. Wallace, Publisher of Freedom's Journal Magazine [12]
- Zachary Ward, economist
- Booker T. Washington, educator and activist
- Maurice Washington, Nevada State Senator
- J. C. Watts, former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma
- Ida B. Wells, civil rights advocate, co-founder of the NAACP
- Allen West, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Florida
- J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Eisenhower [13]
- Armstrong Williams, radio and television commentator
- Michael L. Williams, Texas Railroad Commissioner
- Jeffrey L. Williams, President of Virginia Commonwealth University Chapter of Republicans for Black Empowerment
- Walter E. Williams, author, commentator, economist
- Vern Williams, member of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel
- Anthony Keith Womack , Minister, Educator and Philanthropist
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