Matt brooks
Matt brooks
this republican was first black perosn elected to the U.S. senate.
Shirley Chisolm
Robert L. Planton
blanche kelso Bruce
WHO...and that was a man by the name of Robert L. Planton
Edward William Brooke
Carol Mosley Braun, a democrat from Illinois, was the first black female senator. She was in office from 1993-1999.
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.
The first Senate to convene after the US Constitution was ratified had two senators from each of the 13 states. The first senate had 26 senators.
18th amendment
barack obama