C
Herman Cain
Selwyn Carrol
- Herman Cain (b. 1945), businessman, media personality, and former candidate for President of the United States in 2012.
- Richard H. Cain (1825–1887), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- Francis Lewis Cardozo (1836–1903), state treasurer
- Archibald Carey, Jr. (1908–1981), appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower as chair of his committee to reduce racial discrimination
- Selwyn Carrol (1928–2010), member of the Alaska House of Representatives 1973–1975, county auditor of Hampton County, South Carolina[1][2][3]
- Jennifer Carroll (b. 1959), Lieutenant Governor of Florida[4]
- Ben Carson (b. 1951), political commentator and pediatric neurosurgeon, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Donald Trump (2017–)
- Stefani Carter (b. 1978), member of the Texas House of Representatives
- George Washington Carver (c.1860–1943), inventor
- Juan Chastang (b. 1961/1962), Mobile County, Alabama Commissioner
- Ron Christie (b. 1969), adviser to Vice-President Dick Cheney.[5]
- Octavius Valentine Catto (1839–1871), civil rights activist and African American baseball pioneer
- Julius Caesar Chappelle (1852–1904), legislator (1883–1886), Massachusetts House of Representatives [6]
- Henry P. Cheatham (1857–1935), U.S. Representative from North Carolina
- Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998), author and civil rights leader
- Garry Cobb (b. 1957), NFL Linebacker, 2014 nominee for NJ 1st Congressional District
- Walter L. Cohen (1860–1930), Leader of the Black and Tan Republicans
- Abram Colby (1800s), representative in the Georgia House of Representatives
- William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. (b. 1920), fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, first African American Supreme Court Clerk[7][8][9]
- Ward Connerly (b. 1939), political activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent
- Frank Cousins (b. 1958), first African-American sheriff in Massachusetts
- Jane Powdrell-Culbert (b. 1949), current member (2003 -) of the New Mexico House of Representatives
- Norris Wright Cuney (1846–1898), Chairman of the Texas Republican Party (1886–1896)
- Green Currin (1842/1844–1918), member of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature
D
Frederick Douglass
- Randy Daniels (b. 1950), Secretary of State of New York, 2006 Gubernatorial candidate
- Christopher Darden (b. 1956), lawyer, O.J. Simpson trial prosecutor
- Artur Davis (b. 1967), Democratic Alabama Congressman, speaker at 2012 Republican National Convention, potential Republican candidate
- Ruth A. Davis (b. 1943), diplomat and 24th Director General of the United States Foreign Service
- Paris Dennard (b. 1982), former White House aide to George W. Bush, CNN and NPR contributor
- Lurita Doan (b. 1958), former administrator of the United States General Services Administration
- Oscar Stanton de Priest (1871–1951), U.S. Representative from Illinois
- Robert DeLarge (1842–1874), South Carolina congressman
- Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), abolitionist, editor, orator, author, and statesman
- Antoine Dubuclet (1810–1887), State Treasurer of Louisiana
- Damon Dunn (b. 1976), former football player, politician
- Oscar Dunn (1826–1871), 11th Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
- Edward Duplex (1831–1900), Mayor of Wheatland, California (1888)
E
- Larry Elder (b. 1952), talk radio host and commentator
- Robert Brown Elliott (1842–1884), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
- Clark Ervin (b. 1959), first Inspector General of the US Department of Homeland Security
- James Evans, Chairman of the Utah Republican Party
- Melvin H. Evans (1917–1984), U.S. Representative from, and former Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Charles Evers (b. 1922), civil rights leader, Mayor of Fayette, Mississippi
F
- James L. Farmer, Jr., civil rights leader
- Michel Faulkner, pastor, defensive lineman for the New York Jets, a 2010 nominee for New York's 15th congressional district
- Crystal Bird Fauset, first female African-American state legislator in the United States
- William A. Feilds, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
- Ada Fisher, Republican National Committeewoman for North Carolina
- Arthur Fletcher, official in the administrations of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush; considered the "father of affirmative action"
- Gary Franks, U.S. Representative from Connecticut
- Jendayi Frazer, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
- Ryan Frazier, Aurora City Councilman, 2010 nominee for Colorado's 7th congressional district
- Samuel B. Fuller, founder and president of the Fuller Products Company, publisher of the New York Age and Pittsburgh Courier, head of the South Side Chicago NAACP, president of the National Negro Business League, and a prominent black Republican
- Virginia Fuller, 2010 and 2012 Congressional Candidate
- Walt Furnace (b. 1943), member of the Alaska House of Representatives 1983–1991[10][11]
G
- Matthew Gaines, community leader, minister, and Republican Texas State Senator.
- James Garner, mayor of the Village of Hempstead, New York, 2004 Congressional candidate
- Althea Garrison, former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Robert A. George, editorial writer for the New York Post, blogger and pundit
- Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, American consul to Madagascar
- Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Secretary of State of Florida and Florida Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Ron Givens, member of the Texas House of Representatives
- James Golden, producer on the Rush Limbaugh radio talk show
- Rosey Grier, former professional football player, Protestant minister, actor and candidate for Governor of California, 2018
- Elbert Guillory, current state senator in Louisiana's 24th district
- Darryl Glenn, American politician and lawyer, Republican Party candidate for United States Senate seat in Colorado,2016
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