He was the first African American to serve as governor of a U.S. state since the Reconstruction era, and the first African American ever elected as governor.

Douglas Wilder, American politician, the first popularly elected African American governor in the United States. Wilder, a Democrat, served as governor of ...

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23 нояб. 2022 г. · Democrat L. Douglas Wilder was the first Black person to be elected governor in 1990. He served one term in Virginia before leaving office to ...

Douglas Wilder became Virginia's sixty-sixth governor. He was the first elected African American governor in United States history.

resignation or absence from the state." Pinchback was sworn in as the first governor of African descent in the history of the United States. He took the oath ...

Pinchback was serving as president pro tem of the Louisiana senate when, in 1871, the state's first black lieutenant governor, Oliver Dunn, died. This left ...

18 янв. 2023 г. · Wes Moore will become Maryland's first Black governor Wednesday. Here are the five Black governors who came before him, from Oscar Dunn to ...

Although Wilder was the first African American to be popularly elected to the governor's post, he was not the first African American to hold that office.