Honorable Eva Clayton

Eva Clayton, a Johnson C. Smith University alumna, became the first African American to represent North Carolina in Congress since Reconstruction. She later served as an assistant director-general at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

U.S. representative from North Carolina, 1992–2003.
First Black member of Congress from the state in the twentieth century.
Inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in 1997.