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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.
January 25, 1870, letter from the governor and secretary of state of Mississippi that certified the election of Hiram Rhodes Revels to the Senate. First black 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)
Despite efforts to keep black citizens from participating in legislative roles and elections, the first black U.S. congressman, Hiram Revels, was elected to the Republican Party and represented Mississippi in the Senate from 1870 to 1871. Revels also served as Secretary of State of Mississippi from 1872 to 1873. [2]
February 25 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress. February 26 In New York City, the first pneumatic subway is opened.
Joseph Hayne Rainey (June 21, 1832 – August 1, 1887) was an American politician. He was the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives and the second black person (after Hiram Revels) to serve in the United States Congress.
First known African American (and slave) to compose a work of literature: Lucy Terry with her poem "Bars Fight", composed in 1746 [7] and first published in 1855 in Josiah Holland's "History of Western Massachusetts [8] [7]
Susie Sumner Revels was born in Mississippi on January 1, 1870, the same year her father, Hiram Revels, became the first African-American United States senator in US history. [1] Revels' middle name "Sumner" was a tribute to Charles Sumner, [2] Hiram Revels' friend, who was sworn in as the Massachusetts senator the year Susie was born. [3]
Horace R. Cayton Jr. was born April 12, 1903, in Seattle, Washington, to newspaper publisher Horace R. Cayton, Sr. and Susie Revels.His mother was the daughter of Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first black American elected to the United States Senate.