Edward W Brooke
this republican was first black perosn elected to the U.S. senate.
The first black congresswoman that was elected from the deep south was Barbara Jordan. She was re-elected and she was the first woman that was elected to the Texas Senate.
Shirley Chisolm
Robert L. Planton
WHO...and that was a man by the name of Robert L. Planton
Edward William Brooke
Hiram Rhodes Revels- On February 25, 1870, he was elected the first black member of the Senate, becoming also the first black member of the Congress.
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Carol Mosley Braun, a democrat from Illinois, was the first black female senator. She was in office from 1993-1999.
That was Carol Mosely Braun, a Democrat from Illinois. She won the senatorial election in November 1992 and became the first African-American woman elected to the United States Senate. (There had already been a black woman elected to the House of Representatives-- Shirley Chisholm of New York, who was elected in 1968.)
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Barack Obama was first elected to the Illinois state senate, beginning in 1996.