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Black-American Representatives and Senators by Congress, 1870–Present

This table is based on information drawn from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Representatives and Senators are listed in alphabetical order.

104th Congress, 1995–1997

104th Congress, Black-American Representatives and Senators

House

Senate

Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (Democrat, GA) Corrine Brown (Democrat, FL) William Lacy (Bill) Clay, Sr. (Democrat, MO) Eva M. Clayton (Democrat, NC) James E. Clyburn (Democrat, SC) Barbara-Rose Collins (Democrat, MI) Cardiss Collins (Democrat, IL) John Conyers, Jr. (Democrat, MI) Elijah E. Cummings (Democrat, MD) Ronald V. Dellums (Democrat, CA) Julian Carey Dixon (Democrat, CA) Chaka Fattah (Democrat, PA) Cleo Fields (Democrat, LA) Floyd Harold Flake (Democrat, NY) Harold Eugene Ford, Sr. (Democrat, TN) Gary A. Franks (Republican, CT) Victor O. Frazer (Independent, VI) Alcee Hastings (Democrat, FL) Earl Frederick Hilliard (Democrat, AL) Sheila Jackson Lee (Democrat, TX) Jesse Jackson, Jr. (Democrat, IL) William J. Jefferson (Democrat, LA) Eddie Bernice Johnson (Democrat, TX) John Lewis (Democrat, GA) Cynthia Ann McKinney (Democrat, GA) Carrie P. Meek (Democrat, FL) Kweisi Mfume (Democrat, MD)1 Juanita Millender-McDonald (Democrat, CA) Eleanor Holmes Norton (Democrat, DC) Major Robert Odell Owens (Democrat, NY) Donald M. Payne (Democrat, NJ) Charles B. Rangel (Democrat, NY) Mel Reynolds (Democrat, IL)2 Bobby L. Rush (Democrat, IL) Robert C. Scott (Democrat, VA) Louis Stokes (Democrat, OH) Bennie Thompson (Democrat, MS) Edolphus Towns (Democrat, NY) Walter R. Tucker III (Democrat, CA)3 Maxine Waters (Democrat, CA) Melvin L. Watt (Democrat, NC) Julius Caesar (J. C.) Watts, Jr. (Republican, OK) Albert R. Wynn (Democrat, MD)

Carol Moseley-Braun (Democrat, IL)

Footnotes

1. Kweisi Mfume resigned on February 15, 1996, and was succeeded by Elijah Eugene Cummings on April 16, 1996.
2. Mel Reynolds resigned on October 1, 1995, and was succeeded by Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., on December 12, 1995.
3. Walter R. Tucker III resigned on December 15, 1995, and was succeeded by Juanita Millender-McDonald on March 26, 1996.