WEBApr 4, 2024 · Hiram Rhodes Revels, American clergyman, educator, and politician who became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate (1870–71), representing Mississippi during Reconstruction. He was a member of the Republican Party. Learn more about Revels’s life and career.
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The First Black Man Elected to Congress Was Nearly Blocked ... - HISTORY
WEBAug 10, 2018 · Hiram Rhodes Revels arrived on Capitol Hill to take his seat as the first Black member of the U.S. Congress in 1870. But first, the Mississippi Republican faced Democrats determined to block...
WEBHiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827 [note 1] – January 16, 1901) was an American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War.
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Hiram R. Revels - Facts, Civil War & Senate - Biography
WEBApr 2, 2014 · (1827-1901) Who Was Hiram R. Revels? Hiram R. Revels was a minister who, in 1870, became the first African American United States senator, representing the state of Mississippi. He...
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U.S. Senate: Hiram Revels: First African American Senator
WEBFebruary 25, 2020. By Senate Historical Office. Subscribe. Welcome to Senate Stories, our new Senate history blog. In recognition of Black History Month, our first blog post celebrates the sesquicentennial of the swearing in of Hiram …
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The first Black U.S. senator lived an extraordinary life
WEBJan 6, 2021 · A preacher and respected community leader, Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first Black person to serve in Congress in 1870. Photograph by Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of...
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Biography of African American Senator Hiram Revels
WEBNov 14, 2020 · By. Nadra Kareem Nittle. Updated on November 14, 2020. It took until 2008 for the first African American to be elected president, but remarkably the first Black man to serve as U.S. senator— Hiram Revels —was appointed to the role 138 years earlier.
WEBMar 6, 2023 · A freeman his entire life, Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. With his moderate political orientation and oratorical skills honed from years as a preacher, Revels filled a vacant seat in …
WEBHiram Revels: A Featured Biography. Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator in 1870. Born in North Carolina in 1827, Revels attended Knox College in Illinois and later served as minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in …
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Black Leaders of Reconstruction: Era & Hiram Revels | HISTORY
WEBJun 24, 2010 · Hiram Revels, the first Black elected to the U.S. Senate (he took the Senate seat from Mississippi that had been vacated by Jefferson Davis in 1861) was born free in North Carolina and attended...