Name 1st state Dis Party Notes

elected trict

42* Voting Black Members of the House of Representatives for 112th

Congress. 2 Non-Voting November 4, 2010.

1 Conyers, John, Jr. 1965- MI 14th Dem

2 Rangel, Charles B 1971- NY 15th Dem

3 Towns, Edolphus 1983- NY 10th Dem

4 John Lewis 1987- GA ! 5th Dem

5 Payne, Donald M. 1989- NJ 10th Dem

6 Norton, Eleanor Holmes 1991- DC Dem Non-Voting

7 Waters, Maxine 1991- CA 35th Dem

8 Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. 1993- GA 2nd Dem

9 Brown, Corrine 1993- FL 3rd Dem

10 Clyburn, James E. 1993- SC 6th Dem

11 Hastings, Alcee L. 1993- FL 23rd Dem

12 Johnson, Eddie Bernice 1993- TX 30th Dem

13 Rush, Bobby L. 1993- IL 1st Dem

14 Scott, Robert C. 1993- VA 3rd Dem

15 Thompson, Bennie G. 1993- MS 2nd Dem

16 Watt, Melvin 1993- NC 12th Dem

17 Fattah, Chaka 1995- PA 2nd Dem

18 Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. 1995- IL 2nd Dem

19 Jackson-Lee, Sheila 1995- TX 18th Dem

20 Cummings, Elijah 1996- MD 7th Dem

21 Christian-Christensen, 1997- VI Dem Non-Voting

Donna

22 Davis, Danny K. 1997- IL 7th Dem

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23 Lee, Barbara 1998- CA 9th Dem

24 Meeks, Gregory 1998- NY 6th Dem

25 Clay, William Lacy 2001- MO 1st Dem

26 Scott, David 2003- GA 13th Dem

27 G.K. Butterfield 2004- NC 1st Dem

28 Emanuel Cleaver 2005- MO 5th Dem

29 Al Green 2005- TX 9th Dem

30 Gwen Moore 2005- WI 4th Dem

31 Ellison, Keith 2007- MN 5th Dem

32 Clarke, Yvette 2007- NY 11th Dem

33 Johnson, Hank 2007- GA 4th Dem

34 Laura Richardson 2007- CA 37th Dem

35 Andre Carson (replaced 2008- IN 7th Dem began 3/08

grandmother Julia Carson)

36 Donna Edwards 2008- MD 4th Dem elected June 7

special election

37 Martha Fudge (begins 2008- OH 11th Dem Replaced Tubbs

11/19/08, fill Tubbs seat)

38 Karen Bass 2011- CA 33rd Dem Took over Diane

Watsonʼs seat.

39 Hanson Clark 2011- MI 13th Dem Defeated Carolyn

Cheeks Kilpatrick
in primary.

40 Cedric Richmond 2011- LA 2nd Dem Regained William

Jeffersonʼs seat
from Josesh Cao.
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41 Tim Scott 2011- SC 1st Rep First SC black

Republican
Member of
Congress since
1870s.

42 Terri Sewel 2011- AL 7th Dem Took Artur Davisʼ

seat.

43 Allen West 2011- FL 22nd Rep

44 Frederica Wilson 2011- FL 17th Dem Took over

Kendrick
Meeksʼ seat.

9.6% of Congress is black. (42 black members of Congress out of 435 total,)
13% of US is black. (I wonʼt get into the question of what makes a person, with
one white and one black parent, black.)

*I canʼt vouch for this 100%. I think it is reasonably accurate, but I could have
missed some people. Itʼs a good starting place.