Wes Moore will become Maryland's first Black governor Wednesday. Here are the five Black governors who came before him, from Oscar Dunn to David Paterson.
Oscar Dunn and P.B.S. Pinchback, Louisiana, 1871-1873
a new lieutenant governor: Dunn’s political rival in New Orleans’s Black Republican elite, P.B.S. Pinchback. Pinchback was born in Georgia to a formerly enslaved woman and her former enslaver.
In 1989, he ran for governor, beating his Republican rival by less than half-a-percentage point. When he was inaugurated on Jan. 13, 1990, he became the first African American elected as governor of any state. His grandparents had been born enslaved.
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