Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 11th district
In office January 7, 2013 – January 3, 2017
Preceded by
Jason Fields
Succeeded by
Jason Fields
Personal details
Born
(1986-12-01) December 1, 1986 (age 37) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Other political affiliations
Working Families
Education
Alabama A&M University (BA)
Signature
Website
Campaign website
J. Mandela Barnes (born December 1, 1986) is an American politician who served as the 45th lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 2019 to 2023.[1] A member of the Democratic Party, he was the state representative for the 11th district from 2013 to 2017. Barnes is the first African American to serve as Wisconsin's lieutenant governor.[2][3]
Barnes was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 U.S. Senate election in Wisconsin, losing to incumbent Republican Senator Ron Johnson.[4]
^"Democrat Tony Evers ousts Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker". Politico. Archived from the original on November 7, 2018. Retrieved November 6, 2018.
^"Mandela Barnes". Wisconsin Historical Society. February 12, 2021. Archived from the original on September 7, 2022. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
^Anderson, Andrea (November 7, 2018). "Mandela Barnes To Become First African-American Lieutenant Governor". Wisconsin Public Radio. Archived from the original on December 3, 2018. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
^"Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes joins US Senate race". AP NEWS. July 20, 2021. Archived from the original on July 20, 2021. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
J. MandelaBarnes (born December 1, 1986) is an American politician who served as the 45th lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 2019 to 2023. A member...
re-election to a third term, defeating Democratic lieutenant governor MandelaBarnes by 26,718 votes — a one-point margin of victory. In 2016, Johnson had...
4%, defeating Republican nominee Tim Michels. As Lieutenant Governor MandelaBarnes ran for the U.S. Senate in the concurrent election, a new Democratic...
Feingold in a rematch, and in 2022, narrowly defeating Lieutenant Governor MandelaBarnes. Born in Mankato, Minnesota, Johnson attended high school in Edina,...
and independent Maggie Turnbull. Evers, along with his running mate MandelaBarnes, managed to defeat Walker and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch...
a third term, defeating the Democratic nominee, Lieutenant Governor MandelaBarnes. In 2016, Johnson had pledged to serve only two terms in the Senate...
the Democratic primary in August 2018. Former state representative MandelaBarnes won the primary for the lieutenant governorship, becoming Evers's running...
Biden in the 2020 presidential election. He endorsed and campaigned for MandelaBarnes in the 2022 U.S. Senate election. List of National Football League head...
six-year term, defeating the Democratic nominee, lieutenant governor MandelaBarnes. Five other Democrats registered to run in the Democratic primary: State...
package to Foxconn. In 2018, Kleefisch claimed that her campaign opponent MandelaBarnes was kneeling during the U.S. national anthem protests at the Wisconsin...
Incumbent Assumed office January 3, 2023 Governor Tony Evers Preceded by MandelaBarnes Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 13th district In office...
beginning in 2019 with a response to then-President Donald Trump: 2019: MandelaBarnes, 45th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin 2020: Ayanna Pressley, U.S. Representative...
elections was a primary challenge in 2016 from state representative MandelaBarnes, but she managed to prevail with 60% of the vote. In the fall of 2019...
cast their vote for Biden: Meg Andrietsch Shelia Stubbs Ronald Martin MandelaBarnes Khary Penebaker Mary Arnold Patty Schachtner Shannon Holsey Tony Evers...
Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district (2013–present) Statewide officials MandelaBarnes, former Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin (2019–2023) Jim Doyle, former...
baseball player and coach Jackie Barnes, goalball player November 30 – Jordan Farmar, basketball player December 1 MandelaBarnes, politician, 45th Lieutenant...
(2009-2019) and nominee for Governor of Wisconsin in 2018 State legislators MandelaBarnes, state assemblyman from the 11th district (2013-2017) and nominee for...
police brutality. On August 24, 2020, Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor MandelaBarnes said the shooting was not an accident, and "This wasn't bad police work...
published in The New York Times on June 5, 1906; Baring-Gould died in 1924. MandelaBarnes, a former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Democratic...
the August 2022 Democratic primary and endorsed Lieutenant Governor MandelaBarnes. In a surprise announcement on March 17, 2023, Governor Tony Evers announced...
in the polls, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson steps up criticism of Lt. Gov. MandelaBarnes". Journal Sentinel. Retrieved August 28, 2022. Calvi, Jason (September...
he lost his bid for reelection in the Democratic primary, losing to MandelaBarnes, son of a public school teacher, who had made major issues of Fields's...
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