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The following is an alphabetically ordered list of notable African American Republicans, past and present.
Contents
A
- Claude Allen, former White House Domestic Policy Advisor
B
- Pearl Bailey, singer and actress
- J. Kenneth Blackwell, former Secretary of State of Ohio, former gubernatorial candidate
- 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
- 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
C
- Herman Cain, businessman and media personality
- Jennifer Carroll, Florida State Representative
- Clarence H. Carter, Director of the District of Columbia’s Department of Human Services, former administration official under President George W. Bush
- 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
D
- Oscar Stanton De Priest, former U.S. Representative from Illinois
- Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor, orator, author, and statesman
- Clyde Drexler, former professional basketball player
E
- Larry Elder, talk radio host and commentator
- Robert Brown Elliott, former U.S Representative from South Carolina
F
- James L. Farmer, Jr., civil rights leader
- 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
G
- none registered
H
- Jeremiah Haralson, former U.S. Representative from Alabama
- Ted Hayes, activist for the homeless
- Erika Harold, Miss America 2003
- John Adams Hyman, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina
I
- Roy Innis, civil rights activist, founder of Congress of Racial Equality
- Niger Innis, commentator and activist
J
- Wallace B. Jefferson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
K
- Alan Keyes, political activist, author, diplomat
- Alveda King, former member of the Georgia House of Representatives
- Don King, boxing promoter
- Martin Luther King, Sr., civil rights leader and advocate for social justice
- Yaphet Kotto, actor
L
- 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
M
- Lynette Boggs McDonald, Las Vegas City Councilwoman, former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives
- Angela McGlowan, political analyst
- Donald K. McLaurin, mayor of Trotwood, Ohio
- Karl Malone, former professional basketball player
- 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
- Steven Mullins, Connecticut politician, First African American nominee for State Comptroller in state history
N
- Charles Edmund Nash, former U.S Representative from Louisiana
O
- none registered
P
- Rod Paige, seventh U.S. Secretary of Education
- Sherman Parker, Missouri state representative, running for U.S. House of Representatives
- Samuel Pierce, former HUD Secretary
- P. B. S. Pinchback, twenty-fourth governor of Louisiana; first African-American governor of a U.S. state
- Colin Powell, first African-American U.S. Secretary of State
- Michael Powell, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
- Jesse Lee Peterson, civil rights activist, founder of Brotherhood of New Destiny
- Joseph C. Phillips, actor and commentator
Q
- none registered
R
- 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
- Condoleezza Rice, sixty-sixth U.S. Secretary of State
- Frances Rice, Chairman of National Black Republican Association
- Jack E. Robinson II, former U.S. Senate nominee from Massachusetts
- Vernon Robinson, former candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina
- Angel Joy Rocker, former candidate for President
- Joe Rogers, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, youngest Lieutenant Governor in Colorado history
S
- Robert Smalls, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- 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
- Sage Steele, television sports anchor
- Lynn Swann, former NFL player, former Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate
T
- Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and women's rights activist
U
- James L. Usry, former mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey
V
- William T. Vernon, Registrar of the Treasury under President Theodore Roosevelt
W
- Jimmie Walker, actor and comedian
- Booker T. Washington, educator and activist
- 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, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Florida
- Armstrong Williams, radio and television commentator
- Michael L. Williams, Texas Railroad Commissioner
- Walter E. Williams, author, commentator, economist
- J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Eisenhower
Y
- none registered
Z
- none registered
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