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How many black representatives were there before Barack Obama was president?
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The first directly elected black representative in congress was Joseph Rainey of South Carolina in 1870. But change came slowly, and for many years, there were few blacks in congress. As late as 1967, there were only five black members; this increased to ten in 1969. (It should be noted that most of the black members of congress have served in the House of Representatives. As of 2012, there had only been six black senators in the history of the U.S. Senate.) And in the current (2012) House of Representatives, there are 43 black members.
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