Matt brooks
this republican was first black perosn elected to the U.S. senate.
Edward William Brooke
Matt brooks
Shirley Chisolm
Robert L. Planton
blanche kelso Bruce
WHO...and that was a man by the name of Robert L. Planton
Yes. No. His Republican opponent was Alan Keyes.
Arizona.
Carol Mosley Braun, a democrat from Illinois, was the first black female senator. She was in office from 1993-1999.
Ohio Republican, Warren G. Harding, was the first president elected while still serving a term in the United States Senate. Harding, a conservative Republican, signed the first child welfare bill into law, and attempted to get an anti-lynching bill passed to protect African-Americans.
Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican President.