List of African-American Republicans

The following is an alphabetically ordered list of famous African American Republicans, past and present .

A

• Claude Allen (former White House Domestic Policy Advisor)

B

• J. Kenneth Blackwell (Secretary of State of Ohio, former gubernatorial candidate)
• Jennette Bradley (Treasurer of State of Ohio)
• Edward Brooke (Senator from Massachusetts)
• Janice Rogers Brown (U.S. Court of Appeals)
• Blanche K. Bruce (Senator from Mississippi)
• Keith Butler (Minister and former US Senatorial candidate from Michigan)

C

• Herman Cain (Businessman)
• Octavius Valentine Catto (Civil Rights Activist & Black Baseball Pioneer)
• Henry Plummer Cheatham (U.S. Congressman)
• Ward Connerly

D

• Oscar Stanton De Priest (Congressman from Illinois)
• Frederick Douglass
• Clyde Drexler (former basketball player)

E

• Larry Elder (talk radio host and commentator)
• Robert Brown Elliott (U.S Congressman)

F

• none registered

G

• none registered

H

• Ted Hayes (Homeless Activist)

I

• Roy Innis, (founder of CORE, civil rights activist)
• Niger Innis (commentator and activist)

J

• Wallace B. Jefferson (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas)

K

• Alan Keyes
• Don King
• Yaphet Kotto (Actor)
• Martin Luther King, Jr.

L

• John Mercer Langston
• Jefferson Franklin Long (U.S. Congressman from Georgia)
• John Roy Lynch (U.S. Congressman)

M

• Angela McGlowan
• Donald McLaurin (local mayor, running for Ohio state representative)
• Karl Malone (former basketball player)
• Thomas Ezekiel Miller (U.S. Congressman)
• Hamid Saleem Mujahid (Faith Investment Club VP)
• George Washington Murray (U.S. Congressman)

N

• Charles Edmund Nash (U.S Congressman)

P

• Rod Paige (former US Secretary of Education)
• Sherman Parker (Missouri state representative, running for U.S. House of Representatives)
• Samuel Pierce (HUD Secretary in Reagan Administration)
• Colin Powell (former US Secretary of State)
• Michael Powell (former head of FCC)
• Jesse Lee Peterson (Founder of BOND, Civil rights activist)
• Joseph C. Phillips (actor)

Q

• none registered

R

• Joseph H. Rainey (U.S. Congressman)
• Hiram Rhodes Revels (Senator from Mississippi)
• Condoleezza Rice (US Secretary of State)
• Frances Rice (Chairman of National Black Republican Association)
• Jackie Robinson
• Vernon Robinson (City Council member running for Congress)

S

• Luc El-Art Severe (Student, Morehouse College; Chairman of Morehouse College Republicans; future Gubernatorial Candidate for GA)
• Robert Smalls (U.S. Congressman)
• Michael Steele (Lt. Gov. of Maryland, former candidate for the U.S. Senate)
• Pinckney Benton Stuart Pinchback (Former Governor of Louisiana)
• Lynn Swann (former NFL player, former Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate)

T

• Clarence Thomas (US Supreme Court Justice)
• Mary Terrell (Co-founder of the NAACP)

U

• none registered

V

• William T. Vernon (Registrar of the Treasury under President Theodore Roosevelt)

W

• Booker T Washington (educator and activist)

• Jimmie Walker (Actor and Comedian)
• J.C. Watts (former US Representative from Oklahoma)
• Ida Wells (Co-founder of the NAACP)
• Armstrong Williams (Radio and television commentator)
• Michael L. Williams (Texas Railroad Commissioner)
• Walter E. Williams (Author, Commentator, Economist, Recurring Guest Host on The Rush Limbaugh Show)

Y

• none registered

Z

• none registered

See also

• Black conservatism
• List of African Americans

External links

• Republicans for Black Empowerment
• Black Business