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 [http://www.answers.com/topic/victoria-buckley]
*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 [http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/details.aspx?MemberId=4331&SessionId=28]
*Clarence H. Carter, Director of the District of Columbia’s Department of Human Services, former administration official under President George W. Bush [http://www.dhs.dc.gov/dhs/cwp/view,a,3,q,637822,dhsNav,%7C30971%7C.asp]
*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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=dfbxF9dKhoAC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=%22william+thaddeus+coleman+jr%22&source=web&ots=v_TnBh6gpw&sig=U5evqe0m-KjWf8gTWZ-pOPpHmQg] [http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/exhibits/cabinet/coleman.htm] [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912686,00.html]
*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

*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 [http://www.trotwood.org/council/mclaurin.html]
*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 [http://web.archive.org/web/20001204170200/www.angelrocker.com/]
*Joe Rogers, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, youngest Lieutenant Governor in Colorado history
*Carson Ross Mayor of Blue Springs, MO, Fmr. Missouri State Rep.

*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 [http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/dreams/bishop_william_t.htm]

W

*Jimmie Walker, actor and comedian
*Eric M. Wallace, Publisher of Freedom's Journal Magazine [http://freedomsjournalmagazine.com]
*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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=A9ny4Elgxp0C&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&dq=ernest+wilkins+eisenhower&source=web&ots=r8okLDnb-T&sig=Kjm__dOEt2tEfJCSNS-0nw87l7c#PPA190,M1]

Y

*"no one notable"

Z

*"no one notable"

ee also

*Black conservatism
*List of African Americans

External links

* [http://www.theblackgop.com/ Republicans for Black Empowerment]