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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.
Mississippian Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American to be elected as a U.S. Senator and become a member of Congress. [2] In Georgia, Foster Blodgett was elected and presented his credentials as Senator-elect, but the Senate declared him not elected.
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 ...
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This was the world that Hiram Rhodes Revels was born into. He was an Indian, not an African-American, and this issue MUST be corrected. Indeed, I will see that it is. Now, to address that fool below who posits that Mr. Revels was not a Lumbee, and who has the gall to mutter something about "experts" (who are these experts by the way?
Henry Musgrove (R) Henry Musgrove (R) William H. Vassar: 1870 James D. Lynch (R) Joshua S. Morris (D) 26R, 7D 82R, 25D Adelbert Ames (R) Hiram R. Revels (R) 5R James L. Alcorn (R) [n] Ridgley C. Powers (R) 1871 1872 Ridgley C. Powers (R) [c] Alexander Kelso Davis (R) Hiram R. Revels (R) 23R, 14D 65R, 50D James L. Alcorn (R) Grant/ Wilson (R ...
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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