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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.
Hiram Rhodes Revels: 1871–1882 No John Houston Burrus: 1882–1893 No Wilson H. Reynolds 1893–1894 No Thomas J. Calloway: 1894–1896 No Edward H. Triplett 1896–1899 No William H. Lanier: 1899–1905 No Levi John Rowan 1905–1911 No John Adams Martin 1911–1915 No Levi John Rowan 1915–1934 No Isiah S. Sanders, Acting President 1934 ...
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]
More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern states. [1]
Hiram Revels (1822–1901), first African-American member of United States Senate (Fayetteville) Jennifer Roberts (born 1960), served as the 58th Mayor of Charlotte (Charlotte) Hugh Shelton (born 1942), retired U.S. Army General, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff 1997–2001 ( Tarboro )
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 12:07, 4 August 2009: 410 × 888 (163 KB): Jospe {{Information |Description=Cropped version of {{en|1=Hiram Revels takes a seat for Mississippi in the U.S. Senate amidst a contemplative group of other senators (Carl Schurz and Charles Sumner among them) while Jefferson Davis, the former occupant, as Iag
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.
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]