1.   And currently, there is only one black GOP congressman, J.C. Watts of Oklahoma.

2.   Before that election, the state had not elected a black congressman since the turn of the century.

3.   After several conservative white candidates withdrew from the race, William Jefferson, another black congressman with strong ties to the Democratic establishment, was persuaded to drop out.

4.   Clinton made his remarks at a tribute for Rep. James E. Clyburn, the first black congressman from South Carolina since Reconstruction.

5.   Culling his strongest support from minorities, women and organized labor, Wheat has placed himself among a handful of black congressmen from predominantly white districts.

6.   Critics, including a local black Democratic congressman, Louis Stokes, accused Hoke of playing racial politics with the schools.

7.   Ford is the son of Harold Ford, the first black congressman from Tennessee and the engineer of what some state Democratic officials call the Ford Machine.

8.   He assailed the decision Saturday of two influential black Democratic congressmen, Floyd Flake of Queens and Edolphus Towns of Brooklyn, to endorse Giuliani.

9.   His older brother, Harold Ford Sr., was the first black U.S. congressman from Tennessee.

10.   If elected, Seabrook would be the first black congressman to represent the Bronx.