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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.
The first two African-American senators represented the state of Mississippi during the Reconstruction era, following the American Civil War. Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African American to serve in the Senate, was elected in 1870 [5] by the Mississippi State Legislature to succeed Albert G. Brown, who resigned during the Civil War.
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]
Sidney Revels Redmond was born on July 23, 1902, in Jackson, Mississippi, to Black parents Ida Alcorn Revels and Sidney Dillon Redmond. His maternal grandfather was politician Hiram R. Revels. [5] [6] He attended Harvard University for undergrad economics, [7] followed by attendance at Harvard Law School. [5] [8]
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
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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)