A trivia question no liberal could ever answer correctly.

Would ruin the point if I said the source ^ | 5-27-10

[JLS]

I guess Charles William Cathcart:

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000250

This is a bit of a reach though I guess Maderia and the Funchal Islands geologically might be African?

[MindBender26]

Since Obama is only 38% AA, I assume any % “works” to qualify as AA.

Hamilton, who was at least 6 1/4 % Black, and probably more, was elected to the Congress of the Confederation as a New York representative beginning in November 1782.

There were no Senators then, so Hamilton “wins.”

[MindBender26]

PROTEST !!!!!!

See post 82.

:)..... and with Love

[dangus]

North Africa is Africa, but Yulee *was* born in the Virgin Islands. Cathcart, AFAIK, was Anglo-Saxon. (The Cathcarts I found were British.)

[dangus]

No, but I’m quite certain she wasn’t Jewish.

[dangus]

I’m Gonna say Adams. Washington died shortly after leaving the White House.

[Doc Savage]

I’ll need to see a complete bloodline analysis. Any white or non-negroid ancestor will invalidate the selection. Thank you.

[Outlaw Woman]

Hiram Revels

[tallyhoe]

Senator Barrack Obama!

[SmartInsight]

So — where is the answer you promised for this morning, at least what you think is the answer, with explanation and link?

[aruanan]

So — where is the answer you promised for this morning, at least what you think is the answer, with explanation and link?

Geez, you still haven't found this? Go to www.senate.gov and put "first African-American senator" in the search engine and you'll get Hiram Revels.

[dangus]

See post #30 and #31. I said I’d post it in the morning IF no-one got it first.

[dangus]

Except Hiram Revels is the wrong answer. He’s the first *black* senator. See post #30 and #31. David Levy Yulee was born of Moroccan parents.

[dangus]

Nope. See posts 30-31.

[Outlaw Woman]

lol......been there done that. Great mind bender. I look forward to the next one :)

[DBrow]

Nope, Brooke, no s, was black, and the first black person to be elected to the senate after the amendment took effect. All the other black senators were appointed by their state legislators.

Yulee is not “black” in terms of skin color, though he is “African-American”.

[SmartInsight]

“David Levy Yulee was born of MOROCCAN parents. He represented Florida between 1845 and 1851.”

He is no more “African-American” than a Caucasian person who was born in Africa. Hence he is NOT the “first African-American” Senator.

“According to the European Journal of Human Genetics, Moroccans from North-Western Africa were genetically closer to Iberians and other Europeans than to Sub-Saharan Africans.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Morocco

The first “REAL” African American Senator was Hiram Revel, as I and others said.

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/h_multi_sections_and_teasers/Photo_Exhibit_African_American_Senators.htm

[SmartInsight]

dangus said to see post 30 AND 31, the answer to "who was the first African-American Senator is: "David Levy Yulee", "born of "Moroccan parents".

I did a quick check and found that "Moroccans from North-Western Africa were genetically closer to Iberians and other Europeans than to Sub-Saharan Africans." (post 97) and pointed out that he is no more "African American" than a Caucasian person born in Africa.

Further, it turns out he was born on St. Thomas, NOT Africa, from a Jewish Father, Moses Elias Levy. He was the first JEWISH Senator. NO WAY can he be considered "African American"

"Yulee was born David Levy in Charlotte Amalie, on the island of St. Thomas, during the British occupation of the Danish West Indies, now the United States Virgin Islands. His father, Moses Elias Levy, bought 50,000 acres of land near present-day Jacksonville to establish a "New Jerusalem" for Jewish settlers."

Wikipedia link

"He was born June 12, 1810, in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, in the West Indies. David Levy, as he was first named, descended from a long line of influential Jewish courtiers to the sultans of Morocco. His father, Moses Elias Levy, was a wealthy and cultivated merchant, and his mother, Hannah, was born on the Caribbean island of St. Eustatius. David's parents divorced when he was quite young, and he spent his early years with his mother in St. Thomas."

From: David Levy Yulee

I hate it when people post an entire thread, thinking they are so clever, and don't even bother doing a modicum of research to confirm their bogus "information" -- when a simple search immediately shows the information they have is completely bogus and incorrect.

The correct answer is what I and others said: Hiram Revels (see my post 2, with source from official Senate site)

[LukeL]

By that logic I am not American because my ancestors came from Germany and Ireland.

[Lancey Howard]

Lemme guess... You’re the kind of moron who thinks the population of the country of South Africa is over 75% African-American, aren’t you?