Currently ONE: Barack Obama In history: FIVE, including Barack Obama United States Senate == {| ! Senator ! Party ! State ! Term | Hiram Rhodes Revels Republican Mississippi 1870-1871 Blanche Kelso Bruce Republican Mississippi 1875-1881 == ! Senator ! Party ! State ! Term | Edward William Brooke Republican Massachusetts 1967-1979 Carol Moseley Braun Democrat Illinois 1993-1999 Barack Obama Democrat Illinois 2005-present |}
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To date, their have been 6 African Americans in the senate. The latest person being Roland Burris.
obama is the 5th. there have been 3 since the reconstruction of the usa lalllalalala hope this helped you harharhawhaw
Currently Barack Obama [ D-IL ] is the only serving African American in the senate.
2 Senators serve for each state, so there are a total of 50*2=100 members in the Senate
a continuous body
That is not true. Each state in the US Senate has two senators.
The Senate is coloured Red, and the House Of Representatives, Green.
No. "At the time of Arizona's push for statehood, there were other territories that had just recently gained statehood, or, like Arizona, were seeking it. This caused many politicians to be concerned about what has been termed "the free coinage of Western senators". Every time a new state is created, two new senators are "coined," or given seats in the senate."