- Ed Towns
Edolphus "Ed" Towns (born July 21, 1934) is an American politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 10th District of New York (map) based in Brooklyn, and including such communities such as Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Mill Basin, Cypress Hills, East New York, and Canarsie. A Democrat, he has served in the House since 1983. - Bobby Rush
Bobby Lee Rush (born November 23 1946) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 1st District of Illinois, located principally on the south side of Chicago. His district has a higher percentage of African American residents (65%) than any other congressional district in the nation. Rush was born in Albany, Georgia, was educated at Roosevelt University, … - John Conyers
John Conyers, Jr. (born May 16, 1929) is a U.S. Congressman representing Michigan's 14th congressional district, which includes all of Highland Park and Hamtramck, as well as parts of Detroit and Dearborn. A Democrat, he has served since 1965 (the district was numbered as the 1st District until 1993). In January 2007, Conyers became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in the 110th United States Congress. - Harold Ford Jr.
Harold Eugene Ford, Jr. (born May 11, 1970) is the current chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee. Ford represented the state's, centered on Memphis, from 1997 to 2007. Ford did not seek reelection to his House seat in 2006 when he unsuccessfully sought the Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Bill Frist. - Charles B. Rangel
Charles Bernard Rangel (born June 11, 1930) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1971, representing the Fifteenth Congressional District of New York (map) Rangel's district, the smallest in the country in geographic size, encompasses Upper Manhattan and includes such neighborhoods as Harlem, Spanish Harlem, Washington Heights, Inwood, and part of the Upper West Side, … - Jesse Jackson Jr.
Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr. (born March 11 1965) is a member of the United States House of Representatives representing (map). He is the son of activist and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson. - William J. Jefferson
William Jennings Jefferson (born March 14, 1947) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, Jefferson has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1991. He represents, which includes much of the greater New Orleans area. He is Louisiana's first black Congressman since the end of Reconstruction. He is currently the subject of a corruption probe, and in May 2006 his Congressional offices were raided, … - Major Owens
Major Robert Odell Owens (born June 28, 1936) is a New York politician and a former Congressman, having represented the state's 11th Congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He retired at the end of his term in January 2007 and was succeeded by Yvette Clarke. Owens was born in Collierville, Tennessee. He has a bachelor's degree from Morehouse College and a master of science degree from Atlanta University. - John Lewis
John Robert Lewis is an American politician and was an important leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and played a key role in the struggle to end segregation. Lewis, a member of the Democratic Party, has represented Georgia's 5th Congressional District (map) in the United States House of Representatives since 1987. The district encompasses almost all of Atlanta. - William H. Gray
William Herbert Gray III served as president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund (1991–2004). He was an influential United States Congressman in the 1980s and minister in Philadelphia - Eddie Bernice Johnson
Eddie Bernice Johnson (born December 3, 1935) is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 30th Congressional district (map) in the U.S. House. - Kweisi Mfume
Mr. Mfume became President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on February 20, 1996, after being unanimously elected to the position by the NAACP's Board of Directors. Previously he held a seat in the United States Congress where he represented Maryland's 7th Congressional District for ten years. - Mickey Leland
George Thomas Leland, better known as Mickey Leland, was a spokesman for the hungry and poor, and later became a congressman from the Texas 18th District and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. He was a Democrat. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Leland attended Wheatley High School in Houston, Texas and obtained a bachelor's and Doctorate of Pharmacy at Texas Southern University in Houston. - Sanford Bishop
Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. (born February 4 1947) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 2nd District of Georgia (map). Bishop was born in Mobile, Alabama to Minnie B. Slade and Sanford Dixon Bishop, who was the first president of Bishop State Community College. He was educated at Morehouse College and Emory University Law School, and served in the United States Army, entering the Reserve Officer Training Corps. - Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (born June 25, 1945, Detroit, Michigan) is an American politician. She has been a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997. Since the 2002 redistricting the district she has represented the 13th District of Michigan comprised of most of Detroit and portions of Downriver. She is the Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus in the 110th Congress (2007-8). She is the mother of Detroit's current mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick. - J. C. Watts
Julius Caesar "J.C." Watts (born November 18, 1957) is an American conservative Republican politician, CNN political contributor, former Representative from Oklahoma in the U.S. Congress, and former professional Canadian football player. - Harold Ford Sr.
Harold Eugene Ford, Sr. (born May 20, 1945) was a United States Representative from Tennessee from 1975 to 1997. He is a Democrat. Ford was born in Memphis to Vera Davis and Newton Jackson Ford, a funeral home director. His was a prominent black family who were leaders in the funeral industry in Memphis' black community, dating back to the days of E.H. Crump. He attended Tennessee State University in Nashville, graduating in 1967. - Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American civil rights activist, former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, and was the United States' first African-American ambassador to the United Nations. Young is the namesake of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. International Boulevard, near the Centennial Olympic Park, has been re-named Andrew Young International Boulevard, … - Donald M. Payne
Donald Milford (Don) Payne (b. July 16 1934, Newark, New Jersey) is an American Democratic Party politician from the state of New Jersey. He represents the state's 10th Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, which encompasses most of the city of Newark, parts of Jersey City and Elizabeth, and some suburban towns in Essex and Union counties. - Barbara Jordan
Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician from Texas. She served as a Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979. - Ron Dellums
I apologize in advance for the length of this post. I wanted to address the Ron Dellums's State of the City address fairly and completely. Below I have noted (in order) every point the Mayor hit during his speech, followed by relevant supplementary information and/or my thoughts on the topic. I considered breaking it up into a few different posts, but then I decided that spreading it out would make it seem like I'm just beating up on Dellums non-stop, and that isn't my intention. - G. K. Butterfield
George Kenneth Butterfield, Jr. (born April 27, 1947) commonly known as G. K. Butterfield, is an American Democratic Party politician. He currently represents North Carolina's 1st congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives. Butterfield, an only child, was born in Wilson, North Carolina. His parents were Dr. G. K. Butterfield and Addie Davis Butterfield. - Sheila Jackson-Lee
Sheila Jackson-Lee (born January 12, 1950 in Queens, New York), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995. She represents Texas' 18th Congressional District (map), which was once the domain of her role model, former congresswoman Barbara Jordan. - Juanita Millender-McDonald
Juanita Millender-McDonald (September 7, 1938 - April 22, 2007) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1996 until her death in 2007, representing California's 37th congressional district, which includes most of South Central Los Angeles and the city of Long Beach, California. She was a member of the Democratic Party. - Louis Stokes
Louis Stokes rose from the local housing projects to serve 30 years in the U.S. House, becoming a potent symbol for his Cleveland-based majority-black district. Reluctant to enter the political arena, Stokes was persuaded to run for office by his prominent brother and by community members he had served for decades as a civil rights lawyer. His accomplishments were substantive and of historic proportions. - Al Green
Alexander N. "Al" Green, commonly known as Al Green, was born on September 1, 1947, and is the U.S. Representative from the Ninth Congressional District in Texas (map). Green won the Democratic primary for District 9 in Houston on March 9, 2004, a district that is largely Democratic with 37% of its population African American and 31% Hispanic - two ethnic groups that traditionally support the Democrats - and later was victorious over Republican Arlette Molina. - Albert Wynn
WYNN: A win is a win. The DCCC says they are committed to supporting incumbents, so that's one weird dynamic. And then you've got the Congressional Black Caucus, which tends to support incumbents as well. Wynn is apparently a rainmaker for the CBC Foundation. Wynn has been doing a lot of local political outreach, he's joined the Out of Iraq and Progressive Caucuses, and altered his voting record dramatically. - Hank Johnson
Henry “Hank” Johnson Jr. is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Georgia's Fourth Congressional District. The district is based in DeKalb County, a largely suburban county east of Atlanta. It also includes portions of Gwinnett and Rockdale counties. A Democrat, Johnson was elected to the U.S. House in the November 7, 2006 general election. Johnson is, along with Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, also elected to Congress in 2006, … - Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. A Democrat, McKinney is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, and from 2005 to 2007, representing Georgia's fourth congressional district. McKinney was defeated in the 2006 Democratic primary, losing her Congressional seat for the second time. - Mervyn Malcolm Dymally
A Caribbean immigrant, a longtime member of the California legislature, and the first black elected to statewide office in California, Mervyn Dymally represented a southern Los Angeles County district in the U.S. House of Representatives for 12 years. Representative Dymally eventually served as a subcommittee chairman on the Foreign Affairs Committee, where he was an outspoken advocate for international human rights and economic development, particularly in Africa and the Caribbean. - Mel Reynolds
Melvin Jay "Mel" Reynolds (born January 8, 1952) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois. Reynolds was born in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, and he graduated from University of Illinois, Harvard University, and Oxford University. An academic achiever, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Lincoln College in the University of Oxford. - Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Rev Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (November 29 1908 - April 4 1972), American politician, was the first African American to become a powerful figure in the United States Congress. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Harlem in 1945, and became chair of the Education and Labor Committee in 1961. His tenure as committee chairman saw the passage of important social legislation. His career was ended by a corruption scandal. - David Scott
David Scott (born June 27 1946), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing the 13th District of Georgia. - Floyd H. Flake
Reverend Dr. Floyd Harold Flake (born January 30, 1945 in Los Angeles) is the senior pastor of the 23,000 member Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in Jamaica, Queens, New York, and president of Wilberforce University. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives. - Kendrick Meek
Kendrick Brett Meek (born September 6 1966) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing (map). He is a member of the New Democrat Coalition. OnTheIssues has labeled Meek a liberal-leaning populist. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on November 5, 2002, succeeding his mother, Congresswoman Carrie Meek, who retired from the seat. He was born in Miami, Florida. - Gwen Moore
Gwendolynne Sophia (Gwen) Moore (born April 18, 1951), a Democrat from Wisconsin, is a Congresswoman representing (map). The district is based in Milwaukee and also includes Cudahy and St. Francis. - Mike Espy
Alphonso Michael Espy, usually called Mike Espy, (born November 30, 1953) was a U.S. political figure. From 1987 to 1993, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi. He served as the Secretary of Agriculture from 1993 to 1994. He was the first African American Secretary of Agriculture. - Oscar Stanton de Priest
Oscar Stanton De Priest (March 9 1871 - May 12 1951) was an American lawmaker and civil rights advocate who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1929 to 1935. He was the first African American to serve in Congress in the 20th century. De Priest was born in Florence, Alabama, moved with his parents to Kansas in 1878, and was raised in Salina. After working as a painter and decorator, De Priest moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1889, … - Craig Anthony Washington
Craig Anthony Washington (born October 12, 1941 in Longview, Gregg County, Texas) is a former African-American congressman in the United States House of Representatives from Texas. Born to Roy and Azalia Washington, Craig was already a proficient reader at three years old. He graduated from Prairie View A&M University in 1966 and was originally interested in becoming a doctor, but as admissions to medical school had already ceased, … - Charles Diggs
Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Born in Detroit, Diggs attended the University of Michigan and Fisk University. He served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945. After his discharge, Diggs worked as a funeral director. He served as a member of the Michigan State Senate from the 3rd district 1951-54, just as his father did from 1937-44.
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