Congressional Elections Firsts
Yvonne B. Burke
, Democratic congresswoman from California
California
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Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
became the first Black women to represent the state of California in the U.S. Congress.
Georgia
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Andrew Young
became the first Black person to represent Georgia in the U.S. Congress in over one hundred years.
Texas
- Barbara Jordan became the first Black woman representative in the U.S. Congress to be elected from the South.