Politicians – Republican Party
Scott Turner (1972- )
Scott Turner is the 19th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He is the first African American to hold a...
Emmanuel W. Onunwor (1954- )
Emmanuel W. Onunwor, was the first African-born American politician to be elected mayor of an American city when he in...
Martin G. “Marty” Barnes (1948-2012)
Martin G. “Marty” Barnes, the first African American mayor of Paterson, New Jersey, was born on March 15, 1948, and...
Ronald Alexander Blackwood (1926-2017)
Ronald Blackwood was the first African American mayor of Mount Vernon, New York, a suburb of New York City. Blackwood...
James Usry (1922-2002)
The first African American major of Atlantic City, James Leroy Usry, was born February 2, 1922, in Athens, Georgia. Shortly...
Abraham Galloway (1837-1870)
Abraham Galloway, freedom-fighter, spy, abolitionist, and politician, is an unsung hero of American history. Galloway was born a slave on...
Henry E. Hayne (ca. 1840-unknown)
Henry E. Hayne was the second African American to serve as the South Carolina Secretary of State after Francis Cardozo....
Hannibal Caesar Carter (1835-1904)
Hannibal Caesar Carter, the second African American to serve as Secretary of State in Mississippi, was born on February 11,...
James Hill (1837?-1903)
James “Jim” Hill was born into slavery in the late 1830s on the J. Hill Salem Road Plantation in Marshall...
