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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.
Horace R. Cayton Jr. was born April 12, 1903, in Seattle, Washington, to newspaper publisher Horace R. Cayton, Sr. and Susie Revels.His mother was the daughter of Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first black American elected to the United States Senate.
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.
After more than 20 years researching her family’s origin in America, Nicka Sewell-Smith found the name of an uncle who had filed a complaint about having his
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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
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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 ]