Hiram Revels, representing Mississippi was elected first African American in the U.S. Senate in 1870.

Black Buzz News Service
Washington, D.C.
February 26, 2010

Besides the U.S. Supreme Court, the old boy U.S. Senate remains the most exclusive all White club in the USA. We have had only five so-called Blacks elected or appointed to the U.S. Senate in the entire 234 year old history of the said Republic. They are follows: Hiram Revels, Blanche Bruce, Edward Brooke, Carol Mosley Braun, Barack Obama and Roland Burris. Many Americans are either unaware of this present and past history in reference to the U.S. Senate or simply do not care. So many highly talented African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans and women haven't been afforded the opportunity to run for the U.S. Senate because of a lack of powerful connections and well heeled friends.