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Senator Tim Scott was.
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No, Donald Oliver was not the first black senator of Canada. William P. Hubbard was the first black senator in Canada, serving from 1920 to 1933. Donald Oliver was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1990 and was the first black senator to be appointed to the Senate since Hubbard's tenure.
Well the first black senator was BORN in 1822... it was Hiram Revels. Mississippi...
Carol Moseley Braun was the first black female senator.
Benjamin Oliver Davis
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first black Senator. He was elected on February 25, 1870 and represented Mississippi. As of 2011, he is only one of six African Americans to serve in the Senate.
Black Mississippi senator elected to the seat that had been occupied by Jefferson Davis when the South seceded (first African-American senator)
He was known as the most liberal Senator.
Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr. was the first African-American in the Air Force. He rose up the ranks to become a general in 1954.
Carol Mosley Braun, a democrat from Illinois, was the first black female senator. She was in office from 1993-1999.
The current President, Barack Obama, is the first black President. He was elected to two terms. He was formerly a Senator in Illinois.
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Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.