African Americans in the 113th Congress

A list of the African-Americans currently serving in the 113th Congress. There are 43 black members in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate.


State House Senate
Alabama Terri Sewell (D)  
California Barbara Lee (D)
Maxine Waters (D)
Karen Bass  (D)
Gloria Negrete McLeod (D)
 
District of Columbia Eleanor Holmes Norton (D)1  
Florida Corrine Brown (D)
Alcee L. Hastings (D)
Frederica Wilson (D)
 
Georgia Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D)
John Lewis (D)
David Scott (D)
Henry "Hank" Johnson, Jr.  (D)
 
Illinois Danny K. Davis (D)
Bobby L. Rush (D)
 
Indiana Andri Carson (D)  
Louisiana Cedric Richmond (D)  
Maryland Elijah E. Cummings (D)
Donna F. Edwards (D)
 
Michigan John Conyers, Jr. (D)  
Minnesota Keith Ellison (D)
 
Mississippi Bennie Thompson (D)  
Missouri William Lacy Clay, Jr. (D)
Emanuel Cleaver II (D)
 
New Jersey Donald Payne, Jr. (D)  
New York Gregory W. Meeks (D)
Yvette D. Clarke (D)
Charles B. Rangel (D)
Hakeem Jeffries (D)
 
Nevada Steven Horsford (D)  
North Carolina G. K. Butterfield (D)
Melvin Watt (D)
 
Ohio Marcia L. Fudge (D)
Joyce Beatty (D)
 
Pennsylvania Chaka Fattah (D)  
South Carolina James E. Clyburn (D) Tim Scott (R)
Texas Al Green (D)
Sheila Jackson Lee (D)
Eddie Bernice Johnson (D)
Marc Veasey (D)
 
Virgin Islands Donna M. Christensen (D)1  
Virginia Robert C. Scott (D)  
Wisconsin Gwen Moore (D)  
1. Non-voting delegate.



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