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James S. Simmons (October 1847 – ?) was a state legislator in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1874 to 1875 and from 1883 to 1884. He represented Issaquena County and Washington County, Mississippi.
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James Sidney Hinton (December 25, 1834 – November 6, 1892) was a Civil War veteran and Republican politician, the first African American to hold state office in Indiana and the first African American to serve in the Indiana state legislature. Born in…
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James Skivring Smith (February 26, 1825 – 1892) was a Liberian politician who served as the sixth president of Liberia from 1871 to 1872. Prior to this, he served as the eighth vice president of Liberia from 1870 to 1871 under President Edward James Roye…
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James Tacuma Small-Edwards is a British politician serving as Member of the London Assembly for West Central since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he served as a Member of Westminster City Council between 2022 and 2026. He is a former rugby player and…
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James Spriggs Payne (December 19, 1819 – January 31, 1882) served as the fourth and eighth president of Liberia, from 1868 to 1870 and from 1876 to 1878. He was the last president to belong to the Republican Party.
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James Thurman Butts Jr. (born August 1, 1953) is an American politician, currently serving as the mayor of Inglewood, California. He rose through the ranks of law enforcement in Inglewood during the 1970s and 1980s, eventually becoming a Deputy Chief.
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James T. Harris (born 1964 or 1965) is an American conservative talk radio host, commentator, and motivational speaker. He hosts The Conservative Circus weekday mornings on News Talk 550 KFYI in Phoenix and 790 KNST in Tucson, Arizona. Harris is known for…
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James Thomas Rapier (November 13, 1837 – May 31, 1883) was an American lawyer and politician from Alabama during the Reconstruction Era. He served as a United States representative from Alabama, for one term from 1873 until 1875. Born free in Alabama, he…
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James T. White (August 25, 1837 – March 13, 1892) was a Baptist minister and state legislator from Helena and Little Rock, Arkansas. He was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives and later the Arkansas Senate in the late 1860s and early 1870s.…
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James Tinney (May 12, 1942 – June 12, 1988) was an African-American historian and minister who specialized in African-American history, specifically religious and political movements. He also founded Faith Temple, a Black LGBT congregation in Washington…
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James Townsend (1737 – 1 July 1787) was a British Whig politician who served as the Lord Mayor of London in 1772. He was Britain's first member of parliament of partial Black African descent.
1954–
James W. Byrd (born March 14, 1954) is an American politician and former Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, representing the 44th district from 2009 to 2019. Byrd retired from his House of Representatives seat to run for Wyoming…
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James W. D. Bland (c. 1838 – April 27, 1870) was a nineteenth-century African-American politician and carpenter from Virginia. After the Civil War, he was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868 and then to the Virginia State Senate.
1851–1883
James William Douglas (June 1, 1851 – November 7, 1883) was a Canadian who represented Victoria City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1875 until his retirement at the 1878 provincial election. He was born in Victoria, Colony of…
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James William Ford (December 22, 1893 – June 21, 1957) was an activist, a politician, and the vice-presidential candidate for the Communist Party USA in the years 1932, 1936, and 1940. Ford was born in Alabama and later worked as a party organizer for the…
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James Worthington Mason (c. 1841 – November 1874) was a state senator, sheriff, and postmaster in Arkansas. In 1868 he was one of the first six African Americans to serve in the Arkansas House.
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James Ward Porter was elected a state representative in Georgia during the Reconstruction era, representing Chatham County. Before becoming a representative he was the owner of a tailor's shop in Savannah. This was unusual, as the laws in Georgia at the…
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James "Mac" Warren is a journalist and steel worker who ran as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States President in 1988 and 1992. His running mate in 1988 was Kathleen Mickells, and in 1992 he had two: Estelle DeBates and Willie Mae Reid,…
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James Watkins (born c. 1823), was an African-American author and abolitionist. After managing to escape from slavery, Watkins travelled to the United Kingdom, where he gave several lectures against American slavery.
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James Earl White (born July 16, 1964) is a former member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 19, which encompassed Polk, Hardin, Jasper, Newton, and Tyler counties. A member of the Republican Party, White was first elected in District 12 in…
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James Wofford was a state legislator in Arkansas. He represented Crittenden County in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1877. He was one of eight African Americans elected to the Arkansas General Assembly in 1876.
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James Woodall (born February 1, 1994) is an American Baptist minister, politician and activist. Woodall is the former president of the Georgia NAACP, serving in the position from 2019 to 2021.
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Jamie Moses is a Canadian politician who is the current Minister of Economic Development, Investment and Trade and Minister of Natural Resources for Manitoba since October 18, 2023. Since 2019, he has represented the St. Vital electoral district in the…
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Jamie Njoku-Goodwin OBE is a British music industry executive and former political adviser. He was Chief Executive of UK Music from 2020 to 2023, and served as Director of Strategy to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from 2023 to 2024.
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