Roll Call: Black Members of Congress
Jonathan Jackson
Congressman Jonathan Jackson represents Illinois' 1st Congressional District in the 118th U.S. House of Representatives (January 3, 2023-Present). Before Congress, Jackson served as a national spokesperson for the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. He also launched several...
Glenn Ivey
Congressman Glenn Ivey represents Maryland's 4th Congressional District in the 118th U.S. House of Representatives (January 3, 2023-Present). Before Congress, Ivey was an attorney who served on Capitol Hill as chief counsel to the Senate Majority Leader Senator Paul...
Maxwell Frost
Congressman Maxwell Frost represents the 10th Congressional District of Florida in the 118th U.S. House of Representatives. Before his election, Frost held leadership roles at ACLU and March for Our Lives, where he served as National Organizing Director. Notably, he...
Valerie Foushee
Congresswoman Valerie Foushee represents the 4th Congressional District of North Carolina in the 118th U.S. House of Representatives (January 3, 2023-Present). Before first running for elected office, Foushee worked as an administrator for the Chapel Hill Police...
Ritchie Torres
Congressman Ritchie Torres represents New York's 15th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives (January 3, 2021-Present). Torres serves on the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist...
Jasmine Crockett
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett represents the 30th Congressional District of Texas in the 118th U.S. House of Representatives. Crockett serves as freshman leadership representative on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the House Committee on...
Nikema Williams
Congresswoman Nikema Williams has represented Georgia's 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2021 (117th Congress-Present). Williams was elected as the Freshman Class President for the 117th Congress. She sits on the Financial Services...
Raphael Gamaliel Warnock
Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock was elected to the U.S. Senate, representing Georgia, in the 117th Congress (January 20, 2021-Present). He is the first Black Senator from Georgia. Warnock serves on the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee; Banking, Housing...
Marilyn Strickland
Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland has represented Washington's 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2021 (117th Congress-Present). Strickland is the first African American to represent Washington at the federal level and one of the...
Frederica Wilson
Congresswoman Frederica Wilson has represented Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2011 (112th Congress-Present). Before Congress, Wilson was an educator who served in the Florida State House of Representatives and the Florida State Senate. There she...
Donald Payne, Jr.
Congressman Donald Payne, Jr. represented New Jersey's 10th Congressional District from 2012 until his death on April 6, 2024 (112th-118th Congresses). Payne was first elected by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Representative...
Steven Horsford
Congressman Steven Horsford has represented Nevada's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2019 (116th Congress-Present), a seat he held previously during the 113th Congress (2013-2015). Before Congress, Horsford led the Culinary...
Cory Anthony Booker
Senator Cory Booker has served the state of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate since 2013 (113th Congress-Present). Before Congress, Booker was Mayor of Newark, New Jersey and served on the Newark City Council. Booker sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee; the Foreign...
Hakeem Jeffries
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries has represented New York's 8th Congressional District since 2013 (113th Congress-Present). Jeffries is a member of the Judiciary Committee and Budget Committee. He is also the democratic leader, having been elected to that position by his...
Marc Veasey
Congressman Marc Veasey has represented Texas' 33rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2013 (113th Congress-Present). He serves on the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Armed Services Committee. Veasey founded the first...
William (Mo) Cowan
Senator William Mo Cowan served Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate from 2013 to 2015 (113th Congress). Cowan was appointed to the Senate by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick on February 1, 2013, to succeed Senator John Kerry, who had resigned to become Secretary of...
Cedric Richmond
Congressman Cedric Richmond represented Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2021 (112th-117th Congresses). Richmond served on the Homeland Security Committee, where he was chair of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity,...
Roland Burris
Senator Roland Burris represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate from 2009 to 2010. Governor Rod Blagojevich selected Burris to fill the unexpired term of then-President-elect Barack Obama on December 31, 2008. Burris served on the Armed Services, Homeland Security and...