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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.
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Born into slavery in Prince Edward County, Virginia, he went on to become the first elected African-American senator to serve a full term (Hiram R. Revels, also of Mississippi, was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate but did not complete a full term). [1]
Born in 1907 to Susie Revels Cayton and Horace Cayton, Sr., Cayton was a civil rights leader in Seattle and California. [1] [2] His grandfather was Hiram R. Revels, the first black senator in the United States. [3] Cayton was forced to seek employment at age 15 as a telephone operator due to a series of unfortunate financial events. [4]
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Authorities have identified the woman who burned to death after she was set on fire inside a New York City subway train as 57-year-old Debrina Kawam. At a news conference, New York City Mayor Eric ...
David Heaton (R) Died June 25, 1870 Joseph Dixon (R) December 5, 1870 New York 28th: Noah Davis (R) Resigned July 15, 1870, before being appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York: Charles H. Holmes (R) December 6, 1870 Iowa 2nd: William Smyth (R) Died September 30, 1870 William P. Wolf (R) December 6, 1870 Virginia 5th ...
Sep. 16—Two people were killed this week in Hiram in what officials ruled a homicide-suicide. The state medical examiner's office ruled that Stephanie Ranieri, 43, of Hiram, was killed, and Chad ...