I can think of two - Carol Mosely Braun, Democrat, and Edwin Brooke, a Republican from Massachusetts. Who were the others?
The first two black men to serve in the senate, one of whom was a former slave. Hiram Revels, a Republican, was the first, but only served one year beginning in 1870. Blanche K. Bruce, a Republican, was first to serve a full 6-year appointment from Mississippi in the same class.
It took the Democrat party until the 1940's to elect their first black person to Congress.
Does HRC count?
Reconstruction-era (1865-1877) South, Mississippi and Alabama, I think. They were Republicans, BTW.
Fat chance. The liberal media and their revisionist version of history has very good reasons for not listing the prior black Senators. Once I list them you'll see why:
U.S. Senator Hiram Revels (REPUBLICAN-MS)
Revels graduated from Knox college. He was ordained as a minister by the Methodist Church and eventually settled in Baltimore where he became principal of a school for African Americans as well as pastor of a local church. Revels, a Mississippi state senator, was selected in 1870 to fill the seat vacated by Jefferson Davis, who'd left to become president of the defunct Confederacy. Senator Revels was among those who campaigned against the carpetbaggers, whom he believed to be woefully corrupt. When he left the Senate in 1871, Revels had earned the respect of both whites and African Americans.
U.S. Senator B.K. Bruce (REPUBLICAN-MS)
Senator Bruce, a sheriff, tax collector, and education official from the Delta, Bruce became Senator in 1874. At his swearing-in ceremony, the state's white senior senator refused to accompany his new colleague to the podium. Instead, Bruce was accompanied by Roscoe Conkling of New York; the two became fast friends, and Bruce later named his only child after Conkling. He was the first black to serve a full term in the Senate. When his term was over in 1881, Bruce was appointed by President James Garfield to be the register of the treasury (as such, he was also the first African-American to be represented on U.S. currency).
U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (REPUBLICAN-MA)
Brooke, educated at Howard University and Boston University,served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Brooke worked as a lawyer in Boston before becoming Massachusetts attorney general (1963-66). A member of the Republican Party, Brooke was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1966. As an elder statesman of the party, he recently made a public apperance to endorse Republican Mitt Romney for Governor.
U.S. Senator Carol Mosely Braun (Democrat-IL)
She served one term as Recorder of Deeds for Cook County, which includes Chicago, before running for the U.S. Senate. She won that race in November 1992. In 1998, after Carol Moseley Braun was defeated in her race for re-election, and President Clinton named Ambassador to New Zealand. She was recalled in 2001 by President George W. Bush and unsuccessfully sought the Democrat nomination for President in 2004.