Given a question, generate a paraphrase of that question wihout changing the meaning of it. Your answer should reword the given sentence, but not add information to it or remove information from it. The answer to your question should be the same as the answer to the original question.

Question: first african american to serve in the united states senate?
who was the first african to serve in the united states senate?

Question: what is robert pattisons first film?
what was robert patisons 1st film?

Question: who was the first governor of north carolinaq?

what was north carolinas first governor?