Roll Call: Black Members of Congress
Gregory W. Meeks
Congressman Gregory W. Meeks has represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1998 (105th Congress-Present). Before Congress, Meeks worked as an assistant district attorney, a prosecutor for a special anti-narcotics taskforce, and a chief...
Denise L. Majette
Congresswoman Denise Majette served as a representative of Georgia's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003 to 2005 (108th Congress). She was a member of the Budget, Education and Workforce, and Small Business committees. A lawyer...
Kendrick B. Meek
Congressman Kendrick Meek represented Florida's 17th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003 to 2011 (108th-111th Congresses). Meek was elected to serve a district formerly represented by his mother, Representative Carrie Meek. Before...
Artur Davis
Congressman Artur Davis represented Alabama's 7th Congressional District from 2003 to 2011 (108th-111th Congresses). Before Congress, Davis practiced law privately and was an Assistant U.S. District Attorney. In Congress, Davis served on the Budget, Financial...
George Kenneth (G.K.) Butterfield
Congressman G.K. Butterfield represented North Carolina's 1st Congressional District from 2004 to 2023 (108th-117th Congresses). Congressman Butterfield served on the Committee on Energy and Commerce where he sat on Technology, Energy, and Health subcommittees. He...
Frank W. Ballance, Jr.
Congressman Frank Ballance represented North Carolina's 1st Congressional District from 2003 to 2004 (108th Congress). Before his tenure in Congress, Ballance worked as an attorney, eventually serving in the North Carolina State House of Representatives and the North...
David Scott
Congressman David Scott has represented Georgia's 13th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2003 (108th Congress-Present). Scott serves on the Financial Services Committee and is the ranking member (formerly chair) of the House Agriculture...
William Lacy Clay, Jr.
Congressman William Lacy Clay, Jr. represented Missouri's 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2021 (107th-116th Congresses). Clay won election to Congress following the retirement of his father, Representative William Clay, Sr....
Diane Edith Watson
Congresswoman Diane Watson served as representative of California's 33rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives of from 2001 to 2011 (107th-111th Congresses) after winning a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of...
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones represented Ohio's 11th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1999 until her death on August 20, 2008 (106th-110th Congresses). Jones was the first African American woman elected to the House from Ohio....
Gwendolynne (Gwen) S. Moore
Congresswoman Gwen Moore has served as a representative of Wisconsin's 4th Congressional District since 2005 (109th Congress-Present). Before her tenure in Congress, Moore served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1989 to 1992 and in the Wisconsin State Senate from...
Victor O. Frazer
Congressman Victor Frazer was a delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands' at-large Congressional District from 1995 to 1997 (104th Congress). Before Congress, Frazer worked as a lawyer and later served as general counsel for the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority....
Emanuel Cleaver II
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver has represented Missouri's 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2005 (109th Congress-Present). Before Congress, Cleaver served on the Kansas City, Missouri city council and was the first African American...
Albert Russell Wynn
Congressman Albert Wynn represented Maryland's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2008 (103rd-110th Congresses). Wynn served on the Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs (later named Financial Services); Foreign Affairs; and...
Melvin L. Watt
Congressman Mel Watt represented North Carolina's 12th Congressional District from 1993 to 2014 (103rd-113th Congresses). Before coming to Congress, Watt was an attorney specializing in minority business and economic development law. In Congress, he served on the...
Alcee Lamar Hastings
Congressman Alcee Hastings was a representative from Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 until his death on April 6, 2021 (103rd-117th Congresses). Before Congress, Hastings was a District Court judge in Florida. He was the first African American...
Bennie Thompson
Congressman Bennie Thompson has represented Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1993 (103rd Congress-Present). Thompson is the longest-serving African American elected official from Mississippi and the lone Democrat in...
Bobby L. Rush
Congressman Bobby Rush represented Illinois's 1st Congressional District from 1993 to 2023 (103rd-117th Congresses). A former Black Panther and U.S. Army veteran, Rush served as an alderman, Chicago City Council member, and Deputy Chairman of the Illinois Democratic...
Robert C. (Bobby) Scott
Congressman Bobby Scott has represented Virginia's 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1993 (103rd Congress-Present). Scott was the first African American elected to Congress from the Commonwealth of Virginia following Reconstruction...