Notable African American Republicans

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The GOP stands for "Government Of the People". All People. Notable African-American Republicans have been helping the Party since its inception. Below you will find a listing of African Americans who have played a key role in the Republican Party. For more information, you can visit the NBRA.

Akindele Akinyemi, CEO of One Network and Conservative Educator
Claude Allen, former White House Domestic Policy Advisor
Renee Amoore, health care advocate & founder and president of The Amoore Group, Inc.; former candidate for Republican National Committee Co-Chairwoman
J. Kenneth Blackwell, former Secretary of State of Ohio, former gubernatorial candidate
Lynette Boggs, former Las Vegas City Councilwoman, former Clark County, NV commissioner, former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives
Peter Boulware, former NFL linebacker and Republican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives, District 9.
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 Stephen Broden, conservative commentator, Life Always board member (a pro-life organization) and evangelical pastor
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.
Keith Butler, Republican national committeeman from Michigan, former councilman for Detroit, minister and former U.S. Senatorial candidate
Herman Cain, businessman and media personality
Jennifer Carroll, Lieutenant Governor of Florida
Clarence H. Carter, Director of the District of Columbia's Department of Human Services, former administration official under President George W. Bush
Ron Christie, former advisor to Vice-President Dick Cheney 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 Ward Connerly, political activist, businessman, and former University of California
Regent Frederick Douglass , political activist
Oscar Stanton de Priest, former U.S. Representative from Illinois
Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor, orator, author, and statesman
Larry Elder, talk radio host and commentator
Robert Brown Elliott, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
Melvin H. Evans, former U.S. Representative from, and former Governor of, the U.S. Virgin Islands
James L. Farmer, Jr., civil rights leader
Michel Faulkner, pastor, former defensive lineman for the New York Jets, a 2010 nominee for New York's 15th congressional district
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
Ryan Frazier, Aurora City Councilman, 2010 nominee for Colorado's 7th congressional district
Samuel B. Fuller, founder and president of the Fuller Products Company, publisher of the New York Age and Pittsburgh Courier, head of the South Side Chicago NAACP, president of the National Negro Business League, and a prominent black Republican Jeremiah Haralson, former U.S. Representative from Alabama
Ted Hayes, activist for the homeless
Amy Holmes, CNN political commentator and independent social conservative
T.R.M. Howard, Mississippi civil rights leader, surgeon, entrepreneur and mentor to Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer
John Adams Hyman, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina Niger Innis, commentator and activist
Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Raynard Jackson, political consultant and political analyst for WUSA*9 TV (CBS affiliate) in Washington, DC
Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson, first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School; pro-life movement leader; Republican candidate for U.S. House and U.S. Senate
Wallace B. Jefferson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas Alan Keyes, former member of the Republican party and nominee for the U.S. Senate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. Civil Rights Leader.
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
Lenny McAllister, political analyst, community activist, and author
Angela McGlowan, political analyst 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
E. Frederic Morrow, first African-American to hold an executive position at the White House. He served under President Dwight D. Eisenhower as Administrative Officer for Special Projects from 1955 to 1961.
Steven Mullins, Connecticut politician, Planning & Zoning Commissioner, City of West Haven, 2009 Republican nominee for Mayor of West Haven, 2002 Republican nominee for State Comptroller
Charles Edmund Nash, former U.S Representative from Louisiana
Constance Berry Newman, U.S. diplomat; former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; member of International Republican Institute
Colin Powell, 65th Secretary of State
Rod Paige, seventh U.S. Secretary of Education
Sherman Parker, Missouri state representative, ran for U.S. House of Representatives
Edward J. Perkins, first African-American U.S. ambassador to South Africa
Jesse Lee Peterson, civil rights activist, founder of Brotherhood of New Destiny
Samuel Pierce, former HUD Secretary
P. B. S. Pinchback, twenty-fourth governor of Louisiana; first African-American governor of a U.S. state
Pierre-Richard Prosper, former Bush Administration war crimes official
Condoleezza Rice, 66th Secretary of State
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
Jack E. Robinson III, former U.S. Senate, Secretary of State, and U.S. House nominee from Massachusetts
Vernon Robinson, former candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina
Joe Rogers, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, youngest Lieutenant Governor in Colorado history
Carson Ross Mayor of Blue Springs, MO, Fmr. Missouri State Rep
Jackie Robinson, Baseball player
Paul H. Scott, Michigan State Representative
Tim Scott. Representative, South Carolina's 1st Congressional District
Robert Smalls, Rep., South Carolina
Joshua I. Smith, appointed commissioner of Minority Business Development by President George H. W. Bush
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 and elected chairman of the Republican National Committee
Lynn Swann, former NFL player, former Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate
Noel C. Taylor, mayor of Roanoke, Virginia from 1975 to 1992
Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
Sojourner Truth, abolitionist speaker and suffrage advocate
Harriet Tubman, abolitionist speaker and suffrage advocate
James L. Usry, former mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey
William T. Vernon, Register of the Treasury under President Theodore Roosevelt
Dale Wainwright, Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court
Josiah Walls, former U.S. Representative from Florida, and one of the first African-Americans to serve in the U.S. House
Booker T. Washington, educator and activist
Denzel Washington, Actor/Entertainer, Academy Award Winner
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, Representative, U.S. House of Representatives (FL-22)
J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Eisenhower
Armstrong Williams, radio and television commentator
Michael L. Williams, Texas Railroad Commissioner
Walter E. Williams, author, commentator, economist
Vern Williams, member of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel
James White, Texas State Rep District #12
William F. Yardley, anti-segregation advocate, first African American candidate for governor of Tennessee (1876)

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