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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.
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.
All 67 people on board the American Airlines regional jet and US Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair Wednesday night are presumed dead – a grim tragedy that has left a heartbreaking ...
Chilling video shows the moments a gunman calmly shoots down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson at close range on the streets of Midtown Manhattan. In the video, the unidentified assailant —...
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
One of the first police officers to arrive at the scene following the death of an 86-year-old widow told a court he and colleagues made a "terrible mistake" by initially not treating the death as ...
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 ]