Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, 33, is Pennsylvania's highest ranking Black official.
Democratic Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, accompanied by his wife, Blayre Holmes Davis, departs from the Senate chambers after becoming Pennsylvania's first Black lieutenant governor.Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, 33, took the oath of office Tuesday in front of the state Senate, where he’ll preside for the next four years. Davis, the state’s 35th lieutenant governor, is now the highest-ranking Black official in the state’s history.
Davis is a Western Pennsylvania native. He hails from McKeesport, a city just outside Pittsburgh that he’s represented in the state House since 2019. In his speech, Davis noted the other Black leaders who helped pave the way for his inauguration: K. Leroy Irvis, the state’s first Black speaker of the House; Robert N.C. Nix Jr., the state’s first Black chief justice of the state Supreme Court; and many activists “whose names may not show up in print but were just as important” to the state’s history.
As a young leader himself, Davis said he’s sending a message to the next generation of leaders — especially to Black and brown young people — that Pennsylvania is full of opportunities.The Rev. Alyn Waller, senior pastor of the Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Philadelphia, said in his opening prayer that he was “mindful of the many African American men who still wait for justice and opportunity.
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