| Name |
Original chapter |
Notability |
Reference |
| Archie Alexander |
Gamma |
Governor of U.S. Virgin Islands |
|
| Richard H. Austin |
|
Michigan Secretary of State |
|
| Nelson Bascome |
|
Minster of Health and Member of Parliament, Bermuda |
|
| Sanford Bishop |
Pi |
Representative from Georgia |
|
| Tom Bradley |
Upsilon |
Mayor of Los Angeles, California, Grand Polemarch of Kappa Alpha Psi |
|
| Alvin Brown |
Delta Psi |
First African-American Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida |
|
| George L. Brown |
Mu |
First Black Lieutenant Governor of Colorado;together with his Kappa brother,California's Mervyn Dymally, he was one of the first two Black lieutenant-governors since Reconstruction and outside of any southern state |
|
| William Lacy Clay, Jr. |
Saint Louis (MO) Alumni |
Representative from Missouri |
|
| Michael B. Coleman |
Columbus (OH) Alumni |
Mayor of Columbus, Ohio |
|
| John Conyers |
Alpha Beta |
Representative from Michigan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee |
|
| George W. Crockett |
Pi |
Representative from Michigan; civil rights activist |
|
| Mike Davis |
|
California State Assembly member |
|
| Mervyn M. Dymally |
Alpha Mu |
First black Lieutenant Governor of California;Representative from California |
|
| Walter E. Fauntroy |
Alpha Gamma |
Representative from Washington, D.C.; civil rights leader |
|
| Adrian Fenty |
Alpha Omega |
Mayor of Washington, D.C. |
|
| Wilson Goode |
Philadelphia (PA) Alumni |
First African-American Mayor of Philadelphia |
|
| Elihu Harris |
Gamma Alpha |
Mayor of Oakland, California |
|
| Alcee Hastings |
Alpha Delta |
Representative from Florida; Federal Judge |
|
| Alphonso R. Jackson |
Epsilon Eta |
13th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) |
|
| Benjamin Jealous |
Washington (DC) Alumni |
President & CEO of the NAACP |
|
| Vernon Jones |
Alpha Kappa |
CEO of DeKalb County, Georgia; Senator from Georgia 2008 candidate |
|
| Nathaniel J. McFadden |
Baltimore (MD) Alumni |
President Pro Tempore, Senate of Maryland |
|
| Obie Patterson |
Gainesville (FL) Alumni |
Maryland House of Delegates, fmr. chairman Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland |
|
| James Perkins, Jr. |
|
First African-American Mayor of Selma, Alabama |
|
| Edward J. Perkins |
Alexandria-Fairfax (VA) Alumni |
U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, the United Nations, and Australia |
|
| Brensil Rolle |
|
Member of Parliament, The Bahamas |
|
| Kasim Reed |
Atlanta (GA) Alumni |
Mayor of Atlanta |
|
| Julian Russell |
|
Senator, The Bahamas |
|
| Carl B. Stokes |
Alpha Omega |
Mayor of Cleveland, first black mayor of a major U.S. city |
|
| Louis Stokes |
Alpha Omega |
First African-American Congressman from Ohio, civil rights lawyer |
|
| John F. Street |
Philadelphia (PA) Alumni |
Mayor of Philadelphia |
|
| Shawn Z. Tarrant |
Epsilon Zeta |
Maryland House of Delegates |
|
| Bennie Thompson |
Gamma Rho |
Representative from Mississippi; Chairman of House Homeland Security Committee |
|
| Craig Watkins |
Zeta Beta |
First African-American District Attorney in Texas, Dallas County, lawyer |
|
| Wellington Webb |
Denver (CO) Alumni |
Mayor of Denver |
|
| Michael Weeks |
|
Member of Parliament, Bermuda |
|
| Jesse White |
Beta Zeta |
Secretary of State of Illinois |
|
| Michael White |
Zeta |
Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio |
|
| J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr. |
Iota |
Attorney, Undersecretary of Labor for International Labor Affairs |
|
| Albert Wynn |
Beta Epsilon |
Representative from Maryland |
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