Kweisi Mfume

Kweisi Mfume is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district, first serving from 1987 to 1996 and again since 2020. He first left his seat to become the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a position he held from 1996 to 2004. In 2006, he ran for the U.S. Senate seat that was being vacated by Paul Sarbanes, narrowly losing the Democratic primary election to Ben Cardin. Mfume returned to his former House seat in 2020 after it was left vacant by the death of Elijah Cummings.