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Fairfax, the second black person elected to statewide office in Virginia, served as lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Fairfax was once considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, after he was elected Virginia’s lieutenant governor in 2017, making him only the second African American elected to statewide office.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026

Assuming local residents can prevent their elected officials from spending the entire windfall from new data centers, the residents benefit too in the form of modest property tax bills and higher home values.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

And he’s not an anonymous creep on the internet; he’s a 45-year-old elected member of Congress running for governor of California.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

In 1867, at the dawn of the Reconstruction Era, no black man held political office in the South, yet three years later, at least 15 percent of all Southern elected officials were black.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander