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Table 3. African American Federal and Statewide Elected Administrative Officeholders, 1963 to 2007*

NAME

TITLE

STATE

TERM EXPIRATION

GENDER

ROSTER

YEARS

Edward W. Brooke, III

U.S. Senator

Massachusetts

12/31/1978

Male

1967-1978

Carol Moseley-Braun

U.S. Senator

Illinois

12/31/1998

Female

1993-1998

Barack Obama

U.S. Senator

Illinois

12/31/2010

Male

2005-2010

L. Douglas Wilder

Governor

Virginia

12/31/1993

Male

1990-1993

Patrick Deval

Governor

Massachusetts

12/31/2010

Male

2007-2010

Mervyn M. Dymally

Lieutenant Governor

California

12/31/1978

Male

1975-1978

George Brown

Lieutenant Governor

Colorado

12/31/1978

Male

1975-1978

L. Douglas Wilder

Lieutenant Governor

Virginia

12/31/1989

Male

1986-1989

Joe Rogers

Lieutenant Governor

Colorado

12/31/2002

Male

1999-2002

Jeanette Bradley

Lieutenant Governor

Ohio

12/31/2004

Female

2003, 2004

Michael S Steele

Lieutenant Governor

Maryland

12/31/2006

Male

2003-2006

Anthony Brown

Lieutenant Governor

Maryland

12/31/2010

Male

2007-2010

David A. Paterson

Lieutenant Governor

New York

12/31/2010

Male

2007-2010

Richard H Austin

Secretary of State

Michigan

12/31/1994

Male

1971-1994

Vel Phillips

Secretary of State

Wisconsin

12/31/1982

Male

1979-1982

Vikki Buckley

Secretary of State

Colorado

6/30/1999

Female

1995-1999

Jesse C White, Jr.

Secretary of State

Illinois

12/31/2006

Male

1999-2006

J. Kenneth Blackwell

Secretary of State

Ohio

12/31/2006

Male

1999-2006

Edward W. Brooke

Attorney General

Massachusetts

12/31/1966

Male

1963-1966

Roland W Burris

Attorney General

Illinois

12/31/1994

Male

1991-1994

Pam Carter

Attorney General

Indiana

12/31/1996

Female

1995-1996

Thurbert E Baker

Attorney General

Georgia

12/31/2010

Male

1998-2010

Joseph Suggs, Jr.

Treasurer

Connecticut

12/31/1994

Male

1994

Gerald A Lamb

Treasurer

Connecticut

12/31/1970

Male

1963-1970

Henry Parker

Treasurer

Connecticut

12/31/1986

Male

1975-1986

James B Lewis

Treasurer

New Mexico

12/31/2010

Male

1987-1990, 2007-2010

Francisco Borges

Treasurer

Connecticut

12/31/1993

Male

1987-1993

Jim Hill

Treasurer

Oregon

12/31/2000

Male

1993-2000

J. Kenneth Blackwell

Treasurer

Ohio

12/31/1998

Male

1995-1998

Denise L Nappier

Treasurer

Connecticut

12/31/2010

Female

1999-2010

Jeanette Bradley

Treasurer

Ohio

12/31/2006

Female

2005, 2006

Roland W Burris

Comptroller

Illinois

12/31/1990

Male

1979-1990

H Carl McCall

Comptroller

New York

12/31/2002

Male

1995-2002

Ralph Campbell, Jr.

Auditor

North Carolina

12/31/2004

Male

 

Randy Brock

Auditor

Vermont

12/31/2008

Male

2005-2008

Albert J Scott

Commissioner of Labor

Georgia

12/31/1992

Male

1991, 1992

Micheal Thurmond

Labor Commissioner

Georgia

12/31/2010

Male

1999-2010

J C Watts

State Corporation Commissioner

Oklahoma

12/31/1994

Male

1991-1994

Michael L Williams

Chair, Railroad Commission

Texas

12/31/2008

Male

1999-2008

David L Burgess

Public Service Commissioner

Georgia

12/31/2006

Male

2000-2006

Dwayne Marc Brown

Clerk of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and Tax Court

Indiana

12/31/1994

Male

1991-1994

Wilson C Riles

State Superintendent of Public Instruction

California

12/31/1982

Male

1971-1982

 

*This list does not include the elected Black state administrators from the Virgin Islands.

 

Data compiled by Alfred Baltimore, Jr., Roster Clerk, and tabulated by Richard Hart, Database Administrator

Source: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington, DC), Black Elected Officials Roster

Table 3. African American Federal and Statewide Elected Administrative Officeholders, 1963 to 2007* [download pdf]

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