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100 Most Influential Black Republicans

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Two from Alabama make the list, including Condeleeza Rice

Condoleezza Rice Gives Talk, Promotes Book In Washington DCTimes staff report

While Democrat presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders battle for the heart and soul of the African American vote ahead of this month’s South Carolina primaries, the only black hopeful in this year’s presidential campaign can be found in the GOP.

Dr. Ben Carson is the lone black running for president in this cycle. He’s also a Republican. That means he’s unlikely to get many black votes, given that African-Americans historically favor Democrats overwhelmingly in national elections.

But that doesn’t mean most blacks eschew the Republican Party. In Alabama two years ago, 11 black candidates ran in the GOP primary, which some considered an all-time high.

Those candidates included Phillip Brown, chairman of the Alabama Minority GOP, who ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Public Service Commission.

Last year, Newsmaxx Media, a leading conservative news media organization, published a list of the 100 most influential African-American Republicans and included Birmingham’s Condeleeza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state; and Huntsville’s John Meredith, President and CEO of Meredith Advocacy, who is son of James Meredith, the first African-American to enroll at the University of Mississippi.

Who are some of the other African-Americans to make the list of prominent Republicans?

Listed below are Newsmax’s 100 Most Influential African-American Republicans. A caveat: not everyone on the list may be actually registered Republican. But these are individuals who have a public identity as Republican or ones who lean Republican.

1. Ben Carson — renowned pediatric neurosurgeon; 2016 presidential candidateRepublican U.S. presidential candidate Carson officially launches bid for the Republican presidential nomination in Detroit

2. Colin Powell — former secretary of state; U.S. Army general

3. Condoleezza Rice — former secretary of state

4. Clarence Thomas — Supreme Court justice

5. Mia Love — U.S. congresswoman, Utah

6. Tim Scott — U.S. senator, South Carolina

7. Jason Riley — Wall Street Journal editorial writer; author, “Please Stop Helping Us”

8. Michael Powell — former chairman, Federal Communications Commission; president, National Cable & Telecommunications Association

9. Will Hurd — Texas congressman

10. Herman Cain — businessman; 2012 presidential candidate

11. Thomas Sowell — economist; author

12. Allen West — former congressman, Florida; ex-Army officer

13. Janice Rogers Brown — federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

14. Shaquille O’Neal — retired NBA star; actor

15. Michael Steele — former chairman, Republican National Committee

16. Antonio Williams — director of government relations, Comcast/Senior Director of Government and External Affairs at Comcast

17. Deroy Murdock — nationally syndicated columnist; businessman

18. Lynn Swann — NFL Hall of Famer; 2006 Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee

19. Elbert Guillory — Louisiana state senator; former Democrat

20. Dwayne Johnson — athlete; actor

21. James “Bo Snerdley” Golden — producer, “The Rush Limbaugh Show”

22. James Earl Jones — Oscar-winning actor

23. Raynard Jackson —A Republican political consultant based in Washington, D.C. who has been involved in every Republican presidential campaign from George H. W. Bush to George W. Bush.

24. Walter Williams — economist; guest host, “The Rush Limbaugh Show”

25. Judge Lynn Toler — star of “Divorce Court”

26. LL Cool J — rapper; actor

27. Herschel Walker — retired NFL running back and Heisman Trophy winner

28. Joseph C. Phillips — actor, writer; Christian commentator

29. Shelby Steele — author, “The Content of Our Character”; documentary filmmaker

30. Joseph Louis Clark — former New Jersey high school principal portrayed by Morgan Freeman in “Lean On Me”

31. Prince — pop star

32. Alveda C. King — pro-life activist; former Georgia legislator; ex-Democrat; niece of Martin Luther King Jr.

33. Boyd Rutherford — Maryland lieutenant governor

34. Nolan Carroll — Philadelphia Eagles cornerback

35. Richard Ivory — founder, HipHopRepublican.com blog

36. Larry Elder — talk radio host; columnist

37. Jimmie “J.J.” Walker — stand-up comedian; iconic comic actor on “Good Times” in 1970s

38. Peter Kirsanow — member, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

39. Robert P. Young Jr. — chief justice, Michigan Supreme Court

40. Don King — boxing promoter

41. Star Parker — president, Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education (CURE); columnist; congressional candidate

42. Alan Keyes — former presidential candidate

43. Raphael “Raffi” Williams — deputy press secretary for Youth and Conservative Media, RNC

44. Ward Connerly — former University of California regent; affirmative action foe

45. Crystal Wright — conservativeblackchick.com blogger

46. Armstrong Williams — radio commentator; author; media entrepreneur

47. Kevin A. Ross — host, “America’s Court with Judge Ross”; former Los Angeles Superior Court judge

48. Stephen N. Lackey — corporate philanthropist; GOP fundraiser

49. Michael L. Williams — former Texas commissioner of education

50. B.J. Penn — assistant secretary of the Navy under George W. Bush

51. Conrad James — scientist; member, University of New Mexico Board of Regents; New Mexico House of Representatives,

52. Robert J. Brown — CEO & Founder of B&C International, a global business management consulting firm headquartered in High Point, NC.

53. Harold Doley — Doley Securities. investment banker and founder of Doley Securities, LLC., the oldest African American owned investment-banking firm in the United States.

54. Logan Delany — Delany Capital; treasurer, Ben Carson Organization

55. Alvin Williams — Black America’s Political Action Committee

56. Robert A. George — New York Post editorial writer

57. Amy Russell — clerk for U.S. District Judge James M. Moody Jr. in Arkansas

58. Jane E. Powdrell-Culbert — New Mexico legislator

59. Karl Malone — retired NBA great

60. Niger Innis — national spokesman, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); former Nevada congressional candidate

61. Neal E. Boyd — pop opera singer; “America’s Got Talent” winner; candidate, Missouri legislature

62. Kay James — president, Gloucester Institute; former George W. Bush administration official

63. Erika Harold — Miss America 2003; 2014 congressional candidate in Illinois

64. Damon Dunn — former NFL wide receiver; real estate investor; Long Beach, California, mayoral candidate

65. Thomas Stith — chief of staff for North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, leading governor’s “Innovation to Jobs” initiative

66. Robert Woodson — president, National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise

67. Sheryl Underwood — comedian; CBS “The Talk” commentator

68. David Tyree — retired NFL wide receiver; New York Giants director of player development; pro-family activist

69. Bruce Harris — nominated by Gov. Christie and defeated by state Democrats to be New Jersey’s first openly homosexual supreme court justice; former mayor of Chatham, N.J.

70. Orlando Watson — black media communications director, Republican National Committee

71. Scott Turner — Texas state legislator; retired NFL defensive back

72. Dale Wainwright — attorney, Bracewell & Giuliani; former associate justice, Texas Supreme Court

73. Stacey Dash — actress; Fox News commentator

74. Jackie Winters — Oregon state senator

75. Patricia Funderburk Ware — HIV/AIDS expert who served in Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations

76. Chidike Okeem — Nigerian-born, London-raised blogger

77. J.A. Parker — president, Lincoln Institute; publisher, The Lincoln Review

78. Nadra Enzi — “The Hood Conservative,” New Orleans-based anti-crime activist

79. Mike Hill — Florida state legislator

80. Sonja Schmidt — PJTV commentator

81. Chelsi P. Henry — entrepreneur; political strategist

82. Joseph Perkins — columnist, Orange County Register

83. Carson Ross — mayor, Blue Springs Missouri

84. William Barclay Allen — former chairman, U.S. Civil Rights Commission; candidate for U.S. Senate in California

85. Clarence M. Mitchell IV — “C4,” Baltimore talk radio personality

86. Deneen Borelli — author, “Blacklash”; FreedomWorks outreach director

Lobbyist John Meredith

87. John Meredith — lobbyist; son of civil rights pioneer James Meredith

88. Bill Hardiman — Michigan state veterans services administrator; former mayor, Kentwood, Michigan; former state senator and congressional candidate

89. Jill Upson — West Virginia legislator

90. Ken Blackwell — former Cincinnati mayor, Ohio secretary of state, and GOP gubernatorial nominee

91. Vernon Robinson — campaign director for Draft Ben Carson movement; former North Carolina congressional candidate

92. Amy Holmes — news anchor, TheBlaze TV

93. Dr. Elaina George — otolaryngologist; ObamaCare critic

94. Tony Childress — sheriff, Livingston County, Illinois

95. Larry Dean Thompson — George W. Bush deputy attorney general

96. Kevin Jackson — host, “Black Sphere” radio show

97. Michel Faulkner — retired New York Jets defensive lineman; New York City pastor; 2010 congressional nominee against Rep. Charles Rangel

98. Ryan Frazier — investment consultant; former Colorado congressional candidate; Mitt Romney adviser

99. Brian C. Roseboro — international banker; George W. Bush Treasury Department official

100. David Webb — talk radio host; political columnist

Source: Newsmax Media.

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