There has been one confirmed Black president of the United States: Barack Obama, who was elected in 2008 as the first African-American president and was re-elected in 2012. Additionally, Kamala Harris became the first African- American vice president in 2021 and was nominated for president in 2024. There are claims and rumors about some other U.S. presidents having Black ancestry, including Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Dwight Eisenhower, but these claims are not historically verified and often stem from speculative or debunked sources. Thus, officially, only Barack Obama is recognized as a Black president of the U.S. based on his confirmed African-American heritage.
