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Libby, Billy W. “Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi Takes His Seat, January-February, 1870.” Journal of Mississippi History 37 (November 1975): 381-94; Thompson, Julius. Hiram R. Revels, 1827-1901: A Biography.
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Hiram Revels was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1822, but an exact birthplace has not been identified. He was born of mixed African and Croatan Indian heritage to free parents. On March 8, 1838 Revels was apprenticed to his brother, Elias B. Revels, as a barber in Lincolnton, North Carolina.
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Black Americans in Congress, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Senator from Mississippi, Member Profile for Congress member Hiram Rhodes Revels, Senator from Mississippi ... Hiram Rhodes Revels was born to free parents in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on September 27, 1827. His father worked as a Baptist preacher, and his mother was...
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First African American Senator -- February 25, 1870 ... On February 25, 1870, visitors in the Senate galleries burst into applause as Mississippi senator-elect Hiram Revels of Mississippi entered the chamber to take his oath of office. Those present knew that they were witnessing an event of great historical significance.
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Featured Bio Hiram Revels ... Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator in 1870. Born in North Carolina in 1827, Revels attended Knox College in Illinois and later served as minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Revels accepted the nomination at the Republican caucus in December 1869. In January 1870, Mississippi elected Hiram Revels as a U.S. senator. Mississippi was readmitted to the Union, but the New York Herald predicted that Revels would never be allowed to take his Senate seat.
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Hiram Revels, the first black member of the United States Senate, was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, of free parents, on September 27, 1827. Revels attended various schools and seminaries and Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.
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More on Hiram Revels from Infoplease: ... Related content from HighBeam Research on: Hiram Revels ... The riddle of Hiram Revels. (change in constitutional meaning of citizenship) (Harvard Law Review)
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