10-20. Black Elected Officials by Office and by State: 1993

                    U.S. & STATE  CITY & COUNTY     LAW
                    LEGISLATURES     OFFICES    ENFORCEMENT  EDUCATION
 STATE                  1/              2/           3/          4/      TOTAL

 Alabama               23              529          58           89       699      
 Alaska                 1                2           0            0         3
 Arizona                4                3           3            5        15
 Arkansas              13              214          51          102       380
 California            13               72          82          106       273

 Colorado               4                4          10            2        20
 Connecticut           14               38           2            8        62
 Delaware               3               14           0            6        23
 D.C.                   4 *            185           0            9       198
 Florida               22              133          28           17       200
 Georgia               43              371          32           99       545

 Hawaii                 0                0           0            0         0
 Idaho                  0                0           0            0         0
 Illinois              25              282          37          121       465
 Indiana               12               50           4            6        72
 Iowa                   1                6           1            3        11

 Kansas                 6                7           3            5        21
 Kentucky               4               47           5            7        63
 Louisiana             33              346         104          153       636
 Maine                  0                1           0            0         1
 Maryland              32               79          23            6       140

 Massachusetts          8               18           2            2        30
 Michigan              17              133          68          115       333
 Minnesota              1                2          10            3        16
 Mississippi           42              495          88          126       751
 Missouri              18              134          14           19       185

 Montana                0                0           0            0         0
 Nebraska               1                2           0            3         6
 Nevada                 3                4           1            2        10
 New Hampshire          2                0           0            0         2
 New Jersey            13              113           0           85       211

 New Mexico             0                0           2            1         3
 New York              30               63          70          136       299
 North Carolina        28              328          31           81       468
 North Dakota           0                0           0            0         0
 Ohio                  16              124          30           49       219

 Oklahoma               6               95           1           21       123
 Oregon                 4                2           4            0        10
 Pennsylvania          18               55          52           33       158
 Rhode Island           9                3           0            0        12
 SOUTH CAROLINA        26              269          15          140       450

 South Dakota           1                2           0            0         3
 Tennessee             16              104          24           24       168
 Texas                 18              323          40           91       472
 Utah                   0                0           0            0         0
 Vermont                2                0           0            0         2

 Virginia              14              126          15            0       155
 Washington             2                9           5            3        19
 West Virginia          1               17           3            0        21
 Wisconsin              8               15           4            3        30
 Wyoming                0                0           0            1         1

 UNITED STATES        561            4,819         922        1,682     7,984

2/: County commissioners and councilmen, mayors, vice mayors, aldermen, regional officials, and other.

3/: Judges, magistrates, constables, marshalls, sheriffs, justices of the peace, and other.

4/: Members of State education agencies, college boards, school boards, and other.

* : Includes two shadow senators and one shadow representative.

Source: U. S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1994 (114th edition) Washington D.C., Table 443. Washington, D.C., Table 443.

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