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Indiana Black Legislative Caucus
The Indiana Black Legislative Caucus is an American political organization composed of African Americans elected to the Indiana General Assembly. Role By drafting and sponsoring legislation to address constituent needs and by examining all bills that affect the minority populace, the Caucus acts as a legislative body on behalf of the minority community. The Caucus presents a minority perspective from the entire state to the Legislature and advocates public policies that promote minority social, cultural and economic progress, statewide. In addition, the Caucus serves as a research study group to generate pertinent data in support of appropriate public policies. Current membership List of officers: History The first African-American man elected to the Indiana House of Representatives was James Sidney Hinton in 1880. A few other African-American members, James Townsend, Richard Bassett and Gabriel Jones were elected in the late 19th century (all of whom, like Hinton, were Republ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earline Rogers
Earline S. Rogers is a Democratic former member of the Indiana Senate, representing the 3rd District from 1990 through 2016. She earlier served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1982 through 1990. Rogers is a member of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus The Indiana Black Legislative Caucus is an American political organization composed of African Americans elected to the Indiana General Assembly. Role By drafting and sponsoring legislation to address constituent needs and by examining all bills t .... References External linksState Senator Earline Rogers''official Indiana State Legislature site'' * Democratic Party Indiana state senators Democratic Party members of the Indiana House of Representatives 1934 births Living people Politicians from Gary, Indiana Women state legislators in Indiana African-American state legislators in Indiana African-American women in politics 21st-century American legislators 21st-century American women politicians 21s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Carson
Julia May Carson (née Porter; July 8, 1938 – December 15, 2007) was a member of the United States House of Representatives for from 1997 until her death in 2007 (numbered as the 10th District from 1997 to 2003).U.S. Congresswoman Julia Carson U.S. House bio Carson was the first woman and first to represent Indianapolis in the U.S. Congress. She was also the second African American woman elected to from |
Daisy Riley Lloyd
Daisy Riley Lloyd (October 15, 1928 – May 15, 2019) was the first female African American to serve in the Indiana legislature. She was one of fifteen Democratic Party (United States), Democrats who represented Marion County, Indiana, Marion County (Indianapolis) in the Indiana House of Representatives during the 94th Indiana General Assembly. She later became a realtor and family counselor and continued active in her community. Early life and education Born Daisy Riley in Lawrence, Kansas and raised on a farm, she was educated in the local public schools and graduated from Highland Park High School in 1946. In Washington, D.C., she studied economics and sociology and earned a bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1950, supporting her studies by working as a research assistant in the Library of Congress. She also met South Carolina-born fellow student Frank Perry Lloyd, whom she married in 1950. The couple moved to Germany the following year, after the U.S. Army assigned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Brokenburr
Robert Lee Brokenburr (November 16, 1886 – March 24, 1974) was an attorney, civil rights leader, and state legislator in Indiana. After several election campaigns, Brokenburr ran as a Republican for an Indiana Senate seat in 1940 and became the first African-American elected to the body where he served for 20 years. Prior to running for office, Brokenburr worked as counsel and general manager for the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company while carrying on his own practice litigating civil rights cases. Early life and education Robert Lee Brokenburr was born on November 16, 1886 in Phoebus, Virginia. His father, Benjamin Brokenburr, was emancipated from slavery as a child.https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/robert-lee-brokenburr-papers-and-photographs.pdf He graduated from Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in 1906, and received a law degree from Howard University in 1909. He was admitted to the Indiana State Bar in 1910. Career Law career In 1910, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stanton (Indiana Politician)
Robert L. Stanton (born 1902) was a dentist and state politician in Indiana. He served two terms in the Indiana House of Representatives. He was elected in 1932 and 1934 from Lake County, Indiana. Born and raised in Arkansas, he earned his bachelor's and DDS degrees from Meharry Medical College. He set up a practice of dentistry in East Chicago. Influential in recruiting black people to the Democratic Party in Lake County, Stanton in 1932 was one of the first two African Americans to be elected to the lower house of the Indiana legislature on the Democratic Party ticket. Henry J. Richardson Jr. of Indianapolis, an African-American lawyer, was also elected as a Democrat. Early life, education and marriage Stanton was born on April 15, 1902, in Newport, Arkansas. He graduated from Newport High School, and subsequently attended Shorter College from 1917 to 1919 and Wilberforce University, a historically black college, from 1920 to 1922. He received his Bachelor of Science deg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Jones (Indiana Politician)
Gabriel L. Jones (1858 - February 20, 1915) was a teacher, public official, and state legislator in Indiana. He represented the Marion County in the Indiana House of Representatives in 1897. He was a Republican. Biography Jones was born in Gallatin in Sumner County, Tennessee, before moving to Indianapolis with his family in 1875. He went to public schools and after graduating from high school in 1883 he taught in the grade schools for seven years from 1883 until 1890. By the time he resigned from his teaching career he was an assistant principal. Jones also worked as a member of the city police for several years, and worked for the internal revenue service in both Missouri and Illinois from 1890 until 1895. He served as deputy recorder for Marion County, Indiana, from 1895 to 1897. He was selected as a candidate for representative at the Republican convention held in September 1896, which he successfully obtained. One of his Democratic opponents, Edward L. Little, hired so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bassett (Indiana Politician)
Richard Bassett (March 28, 1846 – February 21, 1905) was a Baptist minister and a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the Indiana House of Representatives from Howard County, Indiana, Howard County. He was one of four African American state legislators elected in Indiana in the 19th century. Early life and education Bassett was born in 1846 at Snow Hill, North Carolina, to free black parents. In 1848, he moved with his parents to a Society of Friends, Quaker community in Parke County, Indiana. There his father, Zachariah Bassett, first began to preach. Both Richard and his brother Miles would follow their father into the ministry. In 1856, the Bassetts, along with the Artis and Ellis families, established a new African-American settlement in Ervin Township, Howard County, Indiana, Ervin Township in Howard County. Known as the Bassett Settlement, the community grew to 11 families, and at its peak had its own school, church, and post office, as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Matthew Townsend
James Matthew Townsend (August 18, 1841 – June 17, 1913) was an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) minister and a state legislator from Indiana. A Republican, he served in the legislature in the 1884 session. From 1889 to 1891 he was recorder at the General Land Office in Washington, D.C., appointed by President Benjamin Harrison. Early life Townsend was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, on August 18, 1841, to William and Mary Ann Townsend. The family later moved to Oxford, Ohio, and Townsend attended local common schools. Townsend's parents were members of the AME church, and at the age of twelve he joined the church, led in Oxford by John Turner. At the age of sixteen, Townsend was licensed to exhort; and at eighteen, he was licensed to preach.Simmons, William J., and Henry McNeal Turner. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. GM Rewell & Company, 1887. p1135-1138 At the outset of the American Civil War (1861–1865), Townsend desired to join the Union Army, and in 1863 he jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sidney Hinton
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 Raleigh, North Carolina to parents who were free people of color, he moved with them as a youth to Indiana. Hinton started working part-time as a barber while attending school. Later he became involved with politics and the Republican Party. A veteran of the American Civil War, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the United States Colored Troops. He became active in postwar politics, serving as a trustee on the Wabash and Erie Canal, and in 1880 being elected to the State House. Early life and education Hinton was born in 1834 to John Cooper Hinton and Hannah Mitchell Hinton, free people of color in Raleigh, North Carolina. His father was a successful builder of skylights. In 1848 the family moved to Terre Haute, Indiana. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Summers
Vanessa Joyce Summers is a Democratic member of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing the 99th District in her native Indianapolis since being appointed to the seat following the death of her father Del. Joseph W. Summers in 1991. Like her father, Vanessa Summers won re-election multiple times, and in 2012 became the first female as well as the first African-American to lead the Indiana House Democratic Caucus. Background Her parents had married in 1948, after both her father Joseph W. Summers (1930–1991) and mother Joyce Benson Summers (d. 2014) had graduated from Crispus Attucks High School, when it was the only secondary school open to African Americans in Indianapolis. Vanessa Summers has a sister (Natalie), and graduated from the former St. Mary's Academy for Girls, then the only private secondary school in the city that would accept African-American pupils (it closed in 1977). Summers attended Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Smith (Indiana Politician)
Vernon G. Smith (born April 11, 1944) is a Democratic member of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing the 14th District since 1990. He was the chair of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus from 2006 to 2008. Smith is a Baptist Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing Christian believers only (believer's baptism), and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul compete .... References External linksIndiana State Legislature – Representative Vernon G. SmithOfficial government websiteProject Vote Smart – Representative Vernon G. Smith (IN)profile *''Follow the Money'' – Vernon G Smith 2006 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
