As of October 15, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives included 63 African-American, 51 Hispanic, and 21 Asian or Pacific-Islander representatives or delegates.
October 15, 2025
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Contemporary composition of racial and ethnic representation in the House.
In 2006, David Reich and colleagues analyzed 1,597 African-American men with prostate cancer and identified a genomic region with about 2.8% higher West African ancestry that contained at least seven independent prostate-cancer risk variants more common in West African populations, a finding that could explain higher prostate-cancer incidence in African-Americans compared with European-Americans.
January 01, 2006
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Admixture mapping in African-American populations can localize genomic regions where ancestry correlates with disease risk.
In 1965, there were six African-American, four Hispanic, and two Asian or Pacific Islander members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
August 06, 1965
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Baseline representation in the House around the time the Voting Rights Act was enacted.