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Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman elected to Congress from the south. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the 18th district of Texas in 1973.
In 1870, Joseph Rainey (1832-1887) of South Carolina became the first black member of the US House of Representatives.
First African American and first woman elected mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota was Sharon Sayles Belton.
Like any other parliamentary system, the elected representatives primary job is to serve the constituents of the riding from where they were elected. They represent first, the people who elected them and then the party to which they associate.
The first black women to be a United States senator was Carol Moseley Braun. She took office in January of 1993 and left after one term in 1999.
Takemoto Mink was the first Asian woman 2 be elected 2 the us house of reppresentatives in 1964
In 1846, the American Party had its first member elected to the House of Representatives. It was a party member from Philadelphia, Lewis Levin.
Shirley Chisholm was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman elected to Congress from the south. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the 18th district of Texas in 1973.
Barbara Jordan was the first African-American to be elected the the US House of Representatives.
Shirley Chisholm was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
Joseph Hayne rainey was the first African American elected to US House of Representatives, sworn in on December 12, 1870. He served 4 consecutive terms. Jefferson Long became the second African American elected to the US House of Representatives in 1870. He represented Georgia. He served three months as a US Representative.
Barbara Jordan served as a congresswoman from 1972-1979. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1972 as the first African-American congresswoman from the South to be elected.
Cynthia McKinney was the first to be elected.
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.)
The first African-American to serve in the Senate was Hiram Revels (R-MS), who was a Senator from 1851-1877.The first African-American to serve in the House of Representatives was Joseph H. Rainey (R-SC), who served from 1870 - 1878. Rainey was the first African-American to be elected to Congress; Revels was appointed.The first African-American woman elected to Congress was Shirley Chisholm, elected to the House in 1968. The first African-American woman Senator was Carol Moseley-Braun, elected in 1993.----More info:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_H._Raineyhttp://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/First_African_American_Senator.htmhttp://womenshistory.about.com/od/congress/p/shirleychisholm.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Moseley_BraunJohn Willis Menard
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