people claiming Haitian ancestry are: Haitian Americans in politics In 2014, Congresswoman, Mia Love became the first Haitian American to be elected to the House of Representatives as well as the first Black female Republican. She had previously served as mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah. In 2014, Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte became the first Haitian-American woman to hold an elected office in New York City when she won the 42nd Assembly District seat. On January 20, 2020, Bichotte was overwhelmingly elected chair of the Kings County Democratic Party, thus becoming the first woman to lead the Brooklyn Democratic party, and the first Black woman to lead in any of the five boroughs of New York City. In 2019, Farah N. Louis joined the ranks of Haitian-American legislators in New York City when she became the first woman to represent the 45th Council District, which includes Flatbush, East Flatbush, Midwood, Marine Park, Flatlands, and Kensington in Brooklyn, New York. In 2022, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick became the first Haitian American to be elected to the House of Representatives representing Florida as well as the first Haitian-American Democratic congressperson. Notable people See also Haiti–United States relations Haitian Canadians Haitian diaspora Haitians Little Haiti Newkirk Avenue–Little Haiti station in Brooklyn, NY Little Haiti in East Flatbush, Brooklyn French Caribbean National Haitian Student Alliance West Indian Americans Dominican Americans History of the Haitians in Salisbury, Maryland References Further reading Cantave, Alix. "Incorporation or Symbiosis: Haitians and African Americans in Mattapan." Trotter Review 19.1 (2010): 7+ online. Chierici, Rose-Marie Cassagnol. Demele: 'Making It': Migration and Adaptation among Haitian Boat People in the United States (AMS, 1980). Laguerre, Michel S. "Haitians" in Thernstrom, Stephan; Orlov, Ann; Handlin, Oscar, eds. Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, Harvard University Press, , pp 446–449, Online free to borrow Laguerre, Michel S. Diasporic citizenship: Haitian Americans in transnational America (Springer, 2016). Laguerre, Michel S. American Odyssey: Haitians in New York City (Cornell UP, 1984) Laguerre, Michel S. The Complete Haitiana: A Bibliographic Guide to the Scholarly Literature, 1900–1980 (Kraus International Publications, 1982). Pierre-Louis, François. "A long journey from protest to incorporation: The political development of Haitians in New York City." Journal of Haitian Studies (2011): 52-72. online Unaeze, Felix Eme, and Richard E. Perrin. "Haitian Americans." Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, edited by Thomas Riggs, (3rd ed., vol. 2, Gale, 2014), pp. 305-316. online Verna, Chantalle F. Haiti and the Uses of America: