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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.
January 25, 1870, letter from the governor and secretary of state of Mississippi that certified the election of Hiram Rhodes Revels to the Senate. First black 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 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 ...
February 25 – Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first black member of the Senate (see African Americans in the United States Congress). [citation needed] Christian Methodist Episcopal Church founded. [citation needed] First two Enforcement Acts. [citation needed] 1871
In 1870, Hiram Revels became the first Black U.S. senator. Mississippi rejoined the Senate that year, and state Republicans, pressured by Black state senators, elected Revels to fill an unexpired term for the two months remaining to it.
(Left to right) Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi, Representatives Benjamin Turner of Alabama, Robert DeLarge of South Carolina, Josiah Walls of Florida, Jefferson Long of Georgia, Joseph Rainey and Robert B. Elliot of South Carolina.
I know the names of Hiram Rhodes Revels's siblings. It's all there in black and white, and I can tell you that he was a Lumbee Indian. His ancestors went on to establish my maternal line of Revels in Robeson County, North Carolina. I have never once, in my entire life, ever met a single African-American person named Revels.