P.B.S. Pinchback Becomes First Black Governor

P.B.S. Pinchback served as Acting Governor of Louisiana December 9, 1872 to January 13, 1873, after Gov. Henry Clay Warmoth was impeached — the first Black governor in U.S. history. Son of a white planter and a formerly enslaved woman, Pinchback later won election to the Senate and House, though Congress denied him both seats.