Sentences with phrase «first black legislator»

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who in 2015 became the first black legislator to head the chamber, said before Obama's election in 2008, he didn't know if he'd ever see a black person elected as president in his lifetime.

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«We will actually be balanced and in the black for the first time in my legislative career and almost every legislator inside the building,» Vos said.

For the first time, black legislators from New Orleans, Rep. Austin Badon and Sen. Ann Duplessis, sponsored the voucher bill.

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