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Barry Black
United States Navy admiral and Seventh-Day Adventist minister (born 1948) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the pseudonym of the lead singer of Archers of Loaf, see Eric Bachmann.
Barry Clayton Black[1] (born November 1, 1948) is the 62nd chaplain of the United States Senate. He began serving as Senate chaplain on June 27, 2003, becoming the first African American and first Seventh-day Adventist to hold the office.
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Black served for over 27 years in the United States Navy Chaplain Corps, rising to the rank of rear admiral (upper half) and ending his career as the Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy. He retired from the Navy on August 15, 2003.[2]