page_title: List of African-American Republicans
section_title: C
hierarchical_section_title: List of African-American Republicans / C
caption_attribution_description: Herman Cain speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 11, 2011.
context_page_description: The following is a list of African-American Republicans, past and present. This list is limited to black Americans who have worked in a direct, professional capacity in politics.
context_section_description: Herman Cain (1945–2020), businessman, media personality, and 2012 candidate for President of the United States
  Richard H. Cain (1825–1887), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
  Daniel Cameron (b. 1985), 51st Attorney General of Kentucky
  Tony Campbell (b. 1965), author, pastor, and 2018 candidate for US Senate in Maryland
  Francis Lewis Cardozo (1836–1903), South Carolina Treasurer and South Carolina Secretary of State
  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
  Jennifer Carroll (b. 1959), Lieutenant Governor of Florida
  Ben Carson (b. 1951), political commentator, pediatric neurosurgeon, 2016 presidential candidate, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Donald Trump (2017–)
  Stefani Carter (b. 1978), member of the Texas House of Representatives
  Juan Chastang (b. 1961/1962), Mobile County, Alabama Commissioner
  Ron Christie (b. 1969), adviser to Vice-President Dick Cheney
  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
  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 New Jersey 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. (1920–2017), fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, first African American Supreme Court Clerk
  Ward Connerly (b. 1939), political activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent
  Frank Cousins (b. 1958), first African-American sheriff in Massachusetts
  Robyn Crittenden, Georgia Secretary of State and first African-American woman to serve as a statewide constitutional officer in Georgia
  Jane Powdrell-Culbert (b. 1949), member 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
caption: Herman Cain
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