`Senator in U.S. history and the only African-American currently serving in the Senate.``  It's been a day now since I last posted about this and there have been no comments against this compromise version. I'm assuming the silence means people accept this compromise. If not, please post! I'll let this sit for another day for people to respond to with requests for changes. If there are no objections by then, I will be bold and put this into the article.    :Sounds good.  If you feel its too cumbersome, you could always just say ``By some estimates, he is the fifth African-American `