Douglas Wilder

[randys1]

"Being first dont matter if there isnt a 2nd."

Is what I just heard him say in an interview.

Do you know who was the other first? Pre-reconstruction?



answer



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minority_governors_and_lieutenant_governors_in_the_United_States

[appalachiablue]

1. Robert Smalls maybe.

[geardaddy]

2. P. B. S. Pinchback?

I don't see a pre-Reconstruction Governor/Lt. Governor in that list.

[randys1]

3. Yeah him, he was during reconstruction I guess.

[geardaddy]

4. I think there were quite a few POC who got elected during Reconstruction

More than now.

[randys1]

5. I like the "doesnt matter if there isnt a 2nd" Has there been? A 2nd Black Governor?

[geardaddy]

6. Yes, I like that too.

You mean a second Black Governor of Louisiana?

There have been Black Governors in other states though, but I don't think there have been more than one in each of those states.

[randys1]

7. Which other Black governors other than these two, ie one during reconstruction and one after.

Patrick and Paterson, I now see that.

Every time i google it that doesnt come up

Took me multiple searches to see those two names

[geardaddy]

8. You mean in the South?

Or anywhere in the U.S.?

Deval Patrick (MA)
David Patterson (NY)

[geardaddy]

9. Yeah, there haven't been many.

Those are the only other two I came up with.

[Recursion]

12. Patrick was the second

Wilder was at his inauguration and gave a good interview after.

That campaign was also how Axelrod caught Obama's attention.

[Blue_Tires]

10. Good guy...

He was a classmate and frat brother of my father...

Wilder's campaign was the first one I ever volunteered to help, back when I was 13...

[randys1]

11. Just listening to him gave me hope again about this country