List of African-American U.S. state firsts

African Americans are a demographic minority in the United States. African-Americans' initial achievements in various fields historically establish a foothold, providing a precedent for more widespread cultural change. The shorthand phrase for this is "breaking the color barrier."^[1]^[2]

In addition to major national- and international-level firsts, African-Americans have achieved firsts on a statewide basis.

19th century

1832

First governor of African descent in what is now the US: Pío Pico, an Afro-Mexican, was the last governor of Alta California before it was ceded to the US. Like all Californios, Pico automatically became a US citizen in 1848. He was elected to the Los Angeles Common Council in 1853, but he did not assume office.^{[citation needed]}

1868

First elected African-American lieutenant governor: Oscar Dunn, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana

First 33 African-American legislators in Georgia: see Original 33

1870

First African-American senator from Mississippi: Hiram R. Revels (also first in U.S.)

First African-American acting governor: Oscar James Dunn of Louisiana from May until August 9, 1871, when sitting Governor Warmoth was incapacitated and chose to recuperate in Mississippi. (see also: Douglas Wilder, 1990)

1872

First African-American governor of Louisiana: P. B. S. Pinchback (Also first in U.S.) (non-elected; see also Douglas Wilder, 1990) (Also first elected senator but was denied seat)^[3]

1873

First African-American Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, and of any state legislature: John R. Lynch

First African American elected to the Tennessee General Assembly: Sampson W. Keeble

1876

First African American elected to the Illinois General Assembly: John W. E. Thomas

1878

First African American elected mayor in New York State (village president of Cleveland): Ned Sherman

1879

First African American elected to the Wyoming Legislature: William Jefferson Hardin

First African American elected to the Ohio General Assembly: George Washington Williams

1880

First African American elected to the Indiana General Assembly: James Sidney Hinton^[4]^[5]

1885

First African American elected to the Rhode Island General Assembly: Mahlon Van Horne

1889

First African-American female principal in Massachusetts and the Northeast: Maria Louise Baldwin, supervising white faculty and a predominantly white student body at the Agassiz Grammar School in Cambridge (renamed the Maria L. Baldwin School in 2004).^[6]^[7]

1893

First African-American member elected to the Michigan House of Representatives: William Webb Ferguson

1898

First African-American member elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives: John Francis Wheaton^[8]

20th century

1906

First African-American elected to the Wisconsin Legislature: Lucian H. Palmer

1917

First African American to enter the University of Oregon: Mabel Byrd^[9]

1918

First African-American elected to political office in California: Frederick Madison Roberts, California State Assembly

1920

First African-American elected to the Missouri legislature: Walthall Moore

1924

First African-American elected to the Illinois Senate: Adelbert Roberts

1930

First African Americans elected as judges in the state of New York: James S. Watson and Charles E. Toney^[10]

1938

First African-American woman to be elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly and to any state legislature: Crystal Bird Fauset

1939

First African-American woman to own a cosmetology school in Iowa: Pauline Brown Humphrey^[11]

1948

First African American elected to the Delaware House of Representatives: William J. Winchester

1950

First African-American woman to be elected to the West Virginia Legislature: Elizabeth Simpson Drewry

First African-American woman to be elected to the Michigan Legislature: Charline White

1952

First African American to graduate from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences: Edith Irby Jones^[12]

1955

First African-American woman elected to the New York State Legislature: Bessie A. Buchanan

First African-American elected to the Maryland State Senate: Harry A. Cole

1956

First African-American student to attend the University of Alabama: Autherine Lucy^[13] Her expulsion from the institution later that year led to the university's President Oliver Carmichael's resignation.^[14]^[15]

First African American to teach at college or university level in California: Betty Smith Williams.^[16]^[17]

1957

First African-American woman elected to the New Jersey Legislature: Madaline A. Williams

1958

First African-American women elected to the Maryland General Assembly: Verda F. Welcome and Irma George Dixon

First African-American woman elected to the Illinois General Assembly: Floy Clements

First African American to graduate from the University of Maryland: Elaine J. Coates^[18]

1959

First African American to graduate from the University of Maryland: Elaine J. Coates^[19]

1962

First African-American attorney general of Massachusetts: Edward Brooke. Also first African American to hold Massachusetts statewide office, and first African-American attorney general of any state.

1963

First African American elected to the Delaware Senate: Herman Holloway

1964

First African-American woman elected to the Indiana Legislature: Daisy Riley Lloyd

First African-American woman elected to the New York State Senate: Constance Baker Motley

1966

First African-American woman elected to the Texas Legislature: Barbara Jordan

First African American known lesbian state legislator: Barbara Jordan

First African-American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly: Grace Towns Hamilton

First African-American appointed to New York State Board of Regents: Kenneth Bancroft Clark

First African-American senator from Massachusetts: Edward Brooke. (Also first post-Reconstruction African American elected to the U.S. Senate and first African American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote).

First African-American woman in the California Legislature: Yvonne Brathwaite Burke

First African-American woman elected to the Tennessee General Assembly: Dorothy Lavinia Brown

First African-American woman elected to the Arizona Legislature: Ethel Maynard

1967

First African-American woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar: Marian Wright Edelman

First African-American woman elected to the Montana Legislature: Geraldine W. Travis

1968

First African-American elected to the Florida Legislature since Reconstruction: Joe Lang Kershaw

1969

First African-American elected mayor of a Mississippi city since Reconstruction: Charles Evers, in Fayette, Mississippi^[20]

1970

First African-Americans elected to the Alaska Legislature: Willard L. Bowman and Joshua Wright

First African-American woman elected to the Delaware General Assembly: Henrietta R. Johnson

First African-American woman elected to the Florida Legislature: Gwen Cherry

1971

First African-American woman elected to the Washington Legislature: Peggy Maxie

1972

First African-American elected to the Wisconsin Senate: Monroe Swan

1973

First African-American woman elected to the Massachusetts General Court: Doris Bunte

First African-American woman elected to the Connecticut General Assembly: Margaret E. Morton

1974

First African-American woman elected to the Michigan State Board of Education: Barbara Roberts Mason

First African-American man elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives: Henry Richardson

1975

First African-American woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature: Juanita Goggins

1976

First African-American appointed as a judge in Federal District Court in Virginia: Robert H. Cooley III (1939–1998), appointed to the Eastern District^[21]

First African-American elected mayor in New Mexico: Albert Johnson^[22]

First African-American mayor in New Mexico: Albert Johnson^[23]
1977

First African-American to serve on the California Supreme Court: Wiley W. Manuel

First African-American speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives, and of any state legislature in the United States since Reconstruction: K. Leroy Irvis

First African-American woman elected to the Wisconsin Legislature: Marcia P. Coggs

First African-American woman elected to the Illinois Senate: Earlean Collins

1978

First African-American appointed to the office of Michigan State Treasurer: Loren E. Monroe^[24]

First African-American woman elected to the Ohio Legislature: Helen Rankin

1979

First African-American elected to a statewide office in Illinois: Roland Burris, office of Comptroller

First African-American elected to a statewide office in Wisconsin: Vel Phillips, office of Secretary of State

1980

First African-American speaker of the California State Assembly: Willie Lewis Brown Jr.

1981

First African-American woman elected to the Arkansas General Assembly: Irma Hunter Brown

First African-American elected to the Utah Senate: Terry Lee Williams

1984

First African-American elected to a statewide office in Georgia: Robert Benham, Supreme Court of Georgia

First African-American woman to be elected to the Virginia General Assembly: Yvonne B. Miller

1985

First African-American woman to be elected to the Mississippi Legislature: Alyce Clarke

First African-American woman elected to the Oregon Legislature: Margaret Carter

1987
First African-American justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court: Robert D. Glass
1988

First African-American elected to the Wyoming Legislature: Harriet Elizabeth Byrd

1990

First African-American governor of Virginia: Douglas Wilder (also first elected governor in US; see also P. B. S. Pinchback, 1872)

First African-American woman elected to the Alaska Legislature: Bettye Davis

1991

First African-American woman elected to the Louisiana State Senate: Diana Bajoie

1992

First African-American elected to a statewide office in Indiana: Pamela Carter, office of Attorney General

First African-American Minnesota Supreme Court justice: Alan Page

1993

First African-American senator from Illinois: Carol Moseley Braun. (Also first African-American woman elected to the United States Senate, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first female Senator from Illinois).

1994

First African-American woman elected to the Nevada Legislature: Bernice Mathews

First African-American woman elected to the Delaware Senate: Margaret Rose Henry

1996

First African-American woman elected to the Oregon Legislature: Avel Gordly

1998

First African-American woman elected State Treasurer and first African-American woman elected statewide in Connecticut: Denise Nappier^[25]

First African-American elected to office of Attorney General Georgia: Thurbert E. Baker

21st century

Official portrait of Kamala Harris, 2011

2001

First African-American woman elected to the Minnesota Legislature: Neva Walker

2002

First African-American lieutenant governor of Maryland and first elected to statewide office in Maryland: Michael Steele (see also: 2009)

2004

First African-American District Attorney in California: Kamala Harris (San Francisco) (see also: 2010, 2017)

First African-American Oklahoma Supreme Court justice: Tom Colbert

First African-American Wisconsin Supreme Court justice: Louis B. Butler

First African-American Auditor of Accounts of Vermont and first elected to statewide office in Vermont: Randy Brock

First African-American congresswoman elected in Wisconsin's history: Gwen Moore

2006

First African-American elected governor of Massachusetts: Deval Patrick

First African-American lieutenant governor of New York: David Paterson

2007

First African-American appointed State Treasurer of New Jersey: Michellene Davis

2008

First African-American woman elected Speaker of the California State Assembly: Karen Bass

First African-American governor of New York State: David Paterson (elected as lieutenant governor, succeeded on resignation of previous governor)

First African-American women elected to the Nebraska Legislature: Tanya Cook and Brenda Council

2009

First bicameral state legislature to have both chambers headed simultaneously by African Americans: Peter Groff and Terrance Carroll of Colorado.

2010

First African-American elected Attorney General of California: Kamala Harris (see also: 2004, 2017)

First African-American Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Roderick L. Ireland

First African-American elected to the Idaho Legislature: Cherie Buckner-Webb

2012

First African-American elected to the Idaho Senate: Cherie Buckner-Webb

2013

First African-American senator from South Carolina: Tim Scott^[26] (Also the first African-American to serve both houses of the U.S. Congress.)

First African-American woman to be appointed to a seat on the New York Court of Appeals: Sheila Abdus-Salaam.

First African-American senator from New Jersey: Cory Booker

2014

First African-American senator elected from the South since Reconstruction: Tim Scott^[27]

2015

First African-American elected Speaker of the New York State Assembly: Carl Heastie^[28]

First African-American Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky and first elected to statewide office in Kentucky: Jenean Hampton^[29]^[30]

First African-American woman elected to the Utah Legislature: Sandra Hollins

2017

First African-American United States Senator from California: Kamala Harris (see also: 2004, 2010)

First African-American elected lieutenant governor of New Jersey: Sheila Oliver^[31]

First African-American out trans woman to be elected to public office in the United States: Andrea Jenkins

2018

First female African-American major-party candidate for governor: Stacey Abrams, Georgia

First African-American elected Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Garlin Gilchrist^[32]

First African-American Attorney General of New York: Letitia James^[33]

First African-American and First woman elected Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates: Adrienne A. Jones

First African-American elected Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Juliana Stratton

2019

First African-American elected Attorney General of Kentucky: Daniel Cameron

First Surgeon General for the State of California: Nadine Burke Harris^[34]

2020

First African-American congresswoman elected in Missouri's history: Cori Bush^[35]

First African-American elected Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Mark Robinson

2021

First African-American senator from Georgia and first African-American Democratic Senator from the South: Raphael Warnock^[36]

First African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Missouri: Robin Ransom^[37]

First African-American woman elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Winsome Sears

First African-American woman to serve as Secretary of the State of Connecticut: Natalie Braswell^[38]

2022

First African-American elected Attorney General of Maryland: Anthony Brown

First African-American woman elected Attorney General of Massachusetts: Andrea Campbell

First African-American elected Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Austin Davis

First African-American congresswoman elected in Pennsylvania's history: Summer Lee

First African-American elected governor of Maryland: Wes Moore

First African-American elected Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives: Joe Tate

First African-American woman elected Secretary of State of Connecticut: Stephanie Thomas

First African-American elected Secretary of State of California: Shirley Weber

2023

First African-American woman elected Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives: Joanna McClinton^[39]

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^ Herbst, Philip H. The Color of Words: an encyclopaedic dictionary of ethnic bias in the United States, Intercultural Press, p. 57, 1997 - ISBN 1-877864-97-8
^ Knight, Christina (November 7, 2013). "P.B.S. Pinchback. The Black Governor Who Almost Was a Senator". The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Retrieved September 21, 2024.
^ Gregg, John (February 23, 2012). "Standing with Black trailblazer James S. Hinton". Indianapolisrecorder.com. Retrieved October 25, 2017.
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^ Dorgan, Lauren R. (May 22, 2002). "Committee Renames Local Agassiz School". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
^ Wheaton, John Frances "Frank, J. Frank", Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, Accessed October 5, 2018.
^ "Untold Stories: Black History". University of Oregon Special Collections and University Archives Blog. February 4, 2016. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
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^ "Civil rights pioneer Vivian Jones dies". USA Today. October 13, 2005. Retrieved November 23, 2007.
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^ "Education: Goodbye to 'Bama". Time. November 19, 1956. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
^ Robison, Daniel. "Uniting Nurses of Color". Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
^ Burnette, Margarette (March 30, 2013). "Celebrating Excellence: Past, Present and Future". Minority Nurse. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
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[2] Herbst, Philip H. The Color of Words: an encyclopaedic dictionary of ethnic bias in the United States, Intercultural Press, p. 57, 1997 - ISBN 1-877864-97-8

[3] Knight, Christina (November 7, 2013). "P.B.S. Pinchback. The Black Governor Who Almost Was a Senator". The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Retrieved September 21, 2024.

[4] Gregg, John (February 23, 2012). "Standing with Black trailblazer James S. Hinton". Indianapolisrecorder.com. Retrieved October 25, 2017.

[5] Indiana Black History Public Art Legacy Project Archived 2013-03-16 at the Wayback Machine

[6] Vogel, Nathaniel (April 2002). "The Mismeasure of Maria Baldwin". Peacework Magazine. Archived from the original on October 23, 2007. Retrieved September 24, 2017.

[7] Dorgan, Lauren R. (May 22, 2002). "Committee Renames Local Agassiz School". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved September 24, 2017.

[8] Wheaton, John Frances "Frank, J. Frank", Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, Accessed October 5, 2018.

[9] "Untold Stories: Black History". University of Oregon Special Collections and University Archives Blog. February 4, 2016. Retrieved February 4, 2016.

[10] Judicial Friends Association. (n.d.). Heroic beginnings - judicial friends association. Retrieved January 26, 2023, from https://judicialfriends.org/heroic-beginnings/https://judicialfriends.org/heroic-beginnings

[11] "IWF Celebrates Black History in Iowa: Pauline Brown Humphrey". The Iowa Women's Foundation. February 25, 2021. Retrieved October 1, 2021.

[graduation_1952-12] "University to Graduate First Negro Student". Hope Star. Hope, Arkansas. May 19, 1952. p. 3. Retrieved December 26, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

[13] "Civil rights pioneer Vivian Jones dies". USA Today. October 13, 2005. Retrieved November 23, 2007.

[14] "Expelled in 1956, Autherine Lucy Foster Receives Honorary Doctorate from University of Alabama". May 6, 2019.

[timeeducationgoodbye-15] "Education: Goodbye to 'Bama". Time. November 19, 1956. Retrieved August 28, 2017.

[:03-16] Robison, Daniel. "Uniting Nurses of Color". Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved May 23, 2020.

[:1-17] Burnette, Margarette (March 30, 2013). "Celebrating Excellence: Past, Present and Future". Minority Nurse. Retrieved May 23, 2020.

[18] Svrluga, Susan (May 24, 2019). "After a tumultuous year, U-Md. graduates celebrate new beginnings". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 7, 2020.

[19] Svrluga, Susan (May 24, 2019). "After a tumultuous year, U-Md. graduates celebrate new beginnings". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 7, 2020.

[20] Neil R. McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow, Chicago: University of Illinois, 1990, p.26

[21] "Getting Word: African American Families of Monticello – Robert H. Cooley III". Charlottesville, VA: Monticello. Archived from the original on December 23, 2014.

[22] "First black mayor". Albuquerque Journal. September 2, 1976. p. 53. Archived from the original on August 7, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

[23] "First black mayor". Albuquerque Journal. September 2, 1976. p. 53. Archived from the original on August 7, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

[24] "Loren Monroe, first black State Treasurer of Michigan, dead at 87". Michigan Chronicle. June 4, 2019. Retrieved May 22, 2020.

[25] "Office of Connecticut State Treasurer Denise L. Nappier". Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2011.

[26] "Tim Scott's swearing-in as senator caps his historic rise". McClatchy Newspapers. January 4, 2013. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2013.

[27] "Political firsts: How history was made this midterm election". USA Today. Retrieved October 25, 2017.

[28] "Carl E. Heastie". New York State Assembly. Retrieved October 25, 2017.

[29] Phillips, Amber (November 4, 2015). "Meet Jenean Hampton, the first black statewide officeholder in Kentucky. And, she's a Republican". Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved October 25, 2017.

[30] Fund, John (November 3, 2015). "Kentucky's New GOP Lt. Gov. Is Black Tea-Party Activist". National Review. Retrieved November 4, 2015.

[31] Sheila Oliver becomes New Jersey's first Black lieutenant governor, New York Amsterdam News (November 8, 2017).

[32] Eggert, David (November 7, 2018). "Democrat Gretchen Whitmer wins Michigan governor race, beating Bill Schuette". Chicago Tribune. Associated Press. Retrieved May 22, 2020.

[33] Westerman, Ashley (January 1, 2019). "N.Y. Swears In New Attorney General After A Tumultuous Year For The Office". NPR. Retrieved February 13, 2021.

[34] Crudup, Devin (April 6, 2020). "Meet the Black Woman Appointed as California's First-Ever Surgeon General". AfroTech. Retrieved May 15, 2020.

[35] Derek Major. November 5, 2020. "Here Are The Black Americans That Have Made History In The 2020 Election" Black Enterprise. Retrieved January 27, 2021.

[36] "'The new south': Raphael Warnock becomes Georgia's first Black senator". The Guardian. January 6, 2021. Retrieved February 12, 2021.

[37] Kuang, Jeanne (May 24, 2021). "Parson appoints Robin Ransom, first Black woman to serve on Missouri Supreme Court". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved May 25, 2021.

[38] Pazniokas, Mark (December 10, 2021). "Natalie Braswell to be named comptroller after Lembo steps down". CT Mirror. Retrieved February 7, 2022.

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List of African-American U.S. state firsts

Contents

19th century

20th century

21st century

See also

References