Government-State-Governor
Wes Moore (1978- )
Wes Moore—Rhodes Scholar, banker, and writer—was elected governor of Maryland on November 8, 2022. He is the first African American...
Luis Gilberto Murillo (1967- )
Politician, mining engineer and expatriate intellectual Luis Gilberto Murillo grew in a poverty stricken village of Andagoya, Colombia, an area...
Deval L. Patrick (1956- )
Deval L. Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts, was elected in 2006. He became at that time the second African American elected...
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (1837-1921)
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback was born on May 10, 1837 to parents William Pinchback, a successful Virginia planter, and Eliza...
