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Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827 [note 1] – January 16, 1901) was an American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War.
First African-American senator from Mississippi: Hiram R. Revels (also first in U.S.) First African-American acting governor: Oscar James Dunn of Louisiana from May until August 9, 1871, when sitting Governor Warmoth was incapacitated and chose to recuperate in Mississippi. (see also: Douglas Wilder, 1990) 1872
1872 Currier and Ives print showing the first Black U.S. Senator and Representatives: Sen. Hiram Revels (R-MS), Rep. Benjamin S. Turner (R-AL), Robert DeLarge (R-SC), Josiah Walls (R-FL), Jefferson Long (R-GA), Joseph Rainey and Robert B. Elliott (R-SC), 1872. The following is a list of Black Republicans, past and present. This list is limited ...
As the Civil War was ending, the major issues facing President Abraham Lincoln were the status of the ex-slaves (called "Freedmen"), the loyalty and civil rights of ex-rebels, the status of the 11 ex-Confederate states, the powers of the federal government needed to prevent a future civil war, and the question of whether Congress or the President would make the major decisions.
Henry Wilson (far left) defended Hiram Revels, the first African American U.S. Senator. On December 21, 1865, two days after the announcement that the states had ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, Wilson introduced a bill to protect the civil rights of African Americans. [ 73 ]
Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., said Thursday as the votes on the spending bill were being counted that the legislation “may be a trial run" for Republican governance during the next Trump term.
Joseph Jenkins Roberts Charles L. Reason Patrick Francis Healy William Wells Brown Daniel Alexander Payne Martin R. Delany Hiram Revels Joseph Rainey John Stewart Rock Cathay Williams Ebenezer Bassett Fanny Jackson Coppin Mary Eliza Mahoney Michael A. Healy Blanche K. Bruce Moses Fleetwood Walker Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones William H ...
The 118th Congress saw three men hold the speaker’s gavel and a president pressured to drop his re-election bid. Those power struggles will reverberate into the new Congress that begins Jan. 3.