Black Government Officials
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
Notable African-American Government Officials
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- Minorities and Women in the 109th Congress
- James Armistead, American Revolution patriot
- Tom Bradley, American politician
- Carol Mosely Braun, U.S. senator
- Edward Brooke, American politician
- Ralph Bunche, U.S. government official and United Nations diplomat
- Julia Carson, American politician
- Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, American politician
- John Conyers, politician
- Paul Cuffe, U.S. merchant, seaman, and philanthropist
- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American air force general
- Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., American general
- David Dinkins, political leader
- Joycelyn Elders, U.S. Surgeon General
- William H. Hastie, U.S. jurist
- Richard Gordon Hatcher, politician, law professor
- A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., prominent Black federal judge and historian
- Benjamin Hooks, American Black leader
- Jesse Jackson, political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist
- Maynard Jackson, mayor of Atlanta
- Daniel "Chappie" James, first Black U.S. Air Force general
- Barbara Jordan, lawyer, public official, and educator
- John Mercer Langston, public official, diplomat, educator
- Greenbury Logan, Texan soldier
- Thurgood Marshall, U.S. lawyer and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Floyd McKissick, U.S. lawyer and civil-rights leader
- Kweisi Mfume, politician, NAACP leader
- Parren Mitchell, U.S. politician
- Eleanor Holmes Norton, lawyer and government official
- Barack Obama, U.S. politician
- P. B. S. Pinchback, U.S. politician
- Colin Powell, U.S. army general and public official
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., American politician and clergyman
- Joseph Rainey, U.S. politician
- A. Philip Randolph, U.S. labor leader
- Charles Rangel, U.S. politician
- Hiram R. Revels, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician
- Condoleezza Rice, diplomat, professor
- Myra C. Selby, attorney, Indiana jurist
- Robert Smalls, U.S. captain in the Union navy and politician
- Carl B. Stokes, American political leader
- Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the U.S.. Supreme Court
- Harold Washington, American politician
- J. C. Watts, politician
- Robert C. Weaver, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Andrew Young, African American leader, clergyman, and public official
- Coleman Young, mayor of Detroit, labor organizer
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