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The individuals featured here are not celebrities in just the field of government such as politicians and diplomats, but notable African Americans from every walk of life and every time period from the first slave arrivals in 1619 until today and these people represent in one way or another the more publicly known or of a historical significance and impact to African Americans from every ilk and have indelibly left their mark on American Society and African American History.
Notable African American Government Officials - James Armistead, American Revolution patriot
- Tom Bradley, American politician
- Carol Mosely Braun, U.S. senator
- Edward Brooke, American politician
- Ralph Bunche, U.S. government official and United Nations diplomat
- Julia Carson, American politician
- Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, American politician
- John Conyers, politician
- Paul Cuffe, U.S. merchant, seaman, and philanthropist
- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American air force general
- Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., American general
- David Dinkins, political leader
- Joycelyn Elders, U.S. Surgeon General
- William H. Hastie, U.S. jurist
- Richard Gordon Hatcher, politician, law professor
- A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., prominent black federal judge and historian
- Benjamin Hooks, American black leader
- Gen. Oliver Otis Howard, Union general in the Civil War
- Jesse Jackson, political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist
- Maynard Jackson, mayor of Atlanta
- Daniel "Chappie" James, first black U.S. Air Force general
- Barbara Jordan, lawyer, public official, and educator
- John Mercer Langston, public official, diplomat, educator
- Greenbury Logan, Texan soldier
- Thurgood Marshall, U.S. lawyer and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Floyd McKissick, U.S. lawyer and civil-rights leader
- Kweisi Mfume, politician, NAACP leader
- Eleanor Holmes Norton, lawyer and government official
- P. B. S. Pinchback, U.S. politician
- Colin Powell, U.S. army general and public official
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., American politician and clergyman
- Joseph Rainey, U.S. politician
- A. Philip Randolph, U.S. labor leader
- Charles Rangel, U.S. politician
- Hiram R. Revels, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician
- Condoleeza Rice, diplomat, professor
- Myra C. Selby, attorney, Indiana jurist
- Robert Smalls, U.S. captain in the Union navy and politician
- Carl B. Stokes, American political leader
- Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the U.S.. Supreme Court
- Harold Washington, American politician
- J. C. Watts, politician
- Robert C. Weaver, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Andrew Young, African American leader, clergyman, and public official
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