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Wentworth Cheswell is said to be the first African-American to be elected to office in America. He was one quarter Black and three quarters White. He was elected as town constable of Newmarket, New Hampshire, in 1768 and served in some government position thereafter until his death â well, to be precise, every year but one.
Elected from the 12th District in Brooklyn, New York, specifically from the Bedford-Stuyvesant section where she lived, Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was the first and only black woman in Congress. Ms. Chisholm overcame enormous odds to acquire an education in the public schools, at Brooklyn College and at Columbia University.