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Senator Hiram Revels

On 25 Feb 1870, Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Mississippi, was sworn into the US Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress. During the Civil War, Revels, a college-educated minister, helped form African...

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