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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 R. Revels — AME and Methodist Episcopal minister, and first black U.S. Senator (1870–1871) [93] Barnabas Root 1870 — one of the first black men to receive a college degree in Illinois [ 94 ]
Alcorn State is the second largest historically black college or university (HBCU) and the fifth largest university in Mississippi with an enrollment of approximately 3,700 undergraduate students and 600 graduate students. The university has seven schools, offering more than 50 different fields of study. College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences
As a modernizer, he appointed many like-minded former Whigs, some since Democrats. He strongly supported public schools for all and a new college exclusively for blacks, now known as Alcorn State University. He maneuvered to make his ally, Hiram Revels, the institution's president. Irritated at his patronage policy, many Republicans opposed Alcorn.
First African American to graduate from Harvard College: Richard Theodore Greener. [62] First African-American elected to the U.S. Senate, and first to serve in the U.S. Congress: Hiram Rhodes Revels (R–MS). [63] [Note 4] First African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives: Joseph Rainey (R-SC). [64] [Note 5]
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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Blanche Kelso Bruce (March 1, 1841 – March 17, 1898) was an American politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881.