List of African-American Republicans

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

A

• Claude Allen, former White House Domestic Policy Advisor
• Akindele Akinyemi, CEO of One Network and Conservative Educator

B

• Pearl Bailey, singer and actress
• J. Kenneth Blackwell, former Secretary of State of Ohio, former gubernatorial candidate
• Jennette Bradley, former Treasurer of the State of Ohio
• Edward Brooke, former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, first African American elected by popular vote to the U.S. Senate
• Janice Rogers Brown, a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals
• Blanche Bruce, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate
• Victoria Buckley, former Colorado Secretary of State [1]
• Keith Butler, Republican national committeeman from Michigan, former councilman for Detroit, minister and former U.S. Senatorial candidate

C

• Herman Cain, businessman and media personality
• Jennifer Carroll, Florida State Representative [2]
• Clarence H. Carter, Director of the District of Columbia’s Department of Human Services, former administration official under President George W. Bush [3]
• Octavius Valentine Catto, civil rights activist and African American baseball pioneer
• Henry P. Cheatham, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina
• Eldridge Cleaver, author and civil rights leader
• William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, first African American Supreme Court Clerk [4] [5] [6]
• Ward Connerly, political activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent

D

• Oscar Stanton De Priest, former U.S. Representative from Illinois
• Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor, orator, author, and statesman
• Clyde Drexler, former professional basketball player

E

• Larry Elder, talk radio host and commentator
• Robert Brown Elliott, former U.S Representative from South Carolina

F

• James L. Farmer, Jr., civil rights leader
• Arthur Fletcher, official in the administrations of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush; considered the "father of affirmative action"
• Gary Franks, former U.S. Representative from Connecticut

G

• no one notable

H

• Jeremiah Haralson, former U.S. Representative from Alabama
• Ted Hayes, activist for the homeless
• Erika Harold, Miss America 2003
• John Adams Hyman, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina

I

• Roy Innis, civil rights activist, founder of Congress of Racial Equality
• Niger Innis, commentator and activist

J

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

K

• Alan Keyes, political activist, author, diplomat, perennial candidate for many offices
• Alveda King, former member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Don King, boxing promoter
• Yaphet Kotto, actor

L

• John Mercer Langston, former U.S. Representative from Virginia
• Jefferson Franklin Long, former U.S. Representative from Georgia
• John Roy Lynch, former U.S. Representative from Mississippi

M

• Lynette Boggs McDonald, Las Vegas City Councilwoman, former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives
• Angela McGlowan, political analyst
• Donald K. McLaurin, mayor of Trotwood, Ohio [7]
• Karl Malone, former professional basketball player
• James Meredith, civil rights leader
• Thomas Ezekiel Miller, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
• George Washington Murray, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
• Steven Mullins, Connecticut politician, First African American nominee for State Comptroller in state history. West Haven Commissioner.

N

• Charles Edmund Nash, former U.S Representative from Louisiana

P

• Rod Paige, seventh U.S. Secretary of Education
• Sherman Parker, Missouri state representative, running for U.S. House of Representatives
• Samuel Pierce, former HUD Secretary
• P. B. S. Pinchback, twenty-fourth governor of Louisiana; first African-American governor of a U.S. state
• Colin Powell, first African-American U.S. Secretary of State
• Michael Powell, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
• Jesse Lee Peterson, civil rights activist, founder of Brotherhood of New Destiny
• Joseph C. Phillips, actor and commentator
• Pierre-Richard Prosper, former Bush Administration war crimes official

Q

Kristal C. Quarker, Health and Education Policy Advisor to Representative Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI-11), 2008 Chairwoman of the Black Republican Congressional Staff Association

R

• Joseph H. Rainey, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina, first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives
• James T. Rapier, former U.S. Representative from Alabama
• Hiram Rhodes Revels, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate
• Condoleezza Rice, sixty-sixth U.S. Secretary of State
• Frances Rice, Chairman of National Black Republican Association
• Jack E. Robinson II, former U.S. Senate nominee from Massachusetts
• Vernon Robinson, former candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina
• Angel Joy Rocker, former candidate for President [8]
• Joe Rogers, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, youngest Lieutenant Governor in Colorado history
• Carson Ross Mayor of Blue Springs, MO, Fmr. Missouri State Rep.

S

• Robert Smalls, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
• DeForest "Buster" Soaries, former New Jersey Secretary of State
• Thomas Sowell, economist, writer and commentator
• Michael S. Steele, political commentator, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, former candidate for the U.S. Senate
• Sage Steele, television sports anchor
• Lynn Swann, former NFL player, former Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate

T

• Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

U

• James L. Usry, former mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey

V

• William T. Vernon, Registrar of the Treasury under President Theodore Roosevelt [9]

W

• Jimmie Walker, actor and comedian
• Eric M. Wallace, Publisher of Freedom's Journal Magazine [10]
• Zachary Ward, economist
• Booker T. Washington, educator and activist
• Maurice Washington, Nevada State Senator
• J. C. Watts, former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma
• Ida B. Wells, civil rights advocate, co-founder of the NAACP
• Allen West, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Florida
• Armstrong Williams, radio and television commentator
• Michael L. Williams, Texas Railroad Commissioner
• Walter E. Williams, author, commentator, economist
• J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Eisenhower [11]

Y

• none registered

Z

• none registered

See also

• Black conservatism
• List of African Americans

External links

• Republicans for Black Empowerment