Draft:African American federal officials in the United States

African Americans held various federal offices in the United States.

Are ambassadors federal officials? What about judges?

Frederick Douglass being named recorder of deeds in the District of Columbia. Ebenezer Bassett was appointed ambassador (use official title) to Haiti in 1869. James Milton Turner was appointed as ambassador to Liberia and was succeeded by a series of African Americans appointed to the post.

African American officials were appointed by U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt and Taft. Woodrow Wilson eliminated most African American officeholders.

U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt dined with Booker T. Washington at the White House a month after he took office and appointed Charles William Anderson as a revenue collector in New York City, where Roosevelt was from. Roosevelt also appointed Robert Terrell as a justice of the pewce in Washington D.D.

The first African American member of the U.S. president's cabinet was in 1966 during Lyndon Johnson's presidency (List of African-American United States Cabinet members).