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	Blanche Kelso Bruce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bruce escaped slavery at the opening of the Civil War and attempted to enlist in the Union Army.
		Bruce formally entered the Senate on March 5, 1875, and was elected to three committees: Pensions; Manufactures; and Education and Labor.
		Bruce became a lecturer, an author of magazine articles, and was superintendent of the exhibit on fl achievement at the World's Cotton Exposition in New Orleans during 1884-1885.
	www.csusm.edu /Black_Excellence/documents/pg-b-bruce.html (837 words)

	Blanche Bruce at AllExperts
		Bruce represented Mississippi as a U.S. Senator from 1875 to 1881 and was the first fl to serve a full term in the Senate.
		Bruce was born in Farmville, Virginia to Pettis Perkinson, a white Virginia plantation owner, and a fl house slave named Polly Bruce.
		During Reconstruction, Bruce became a wealthy landowner in Mississippi and was appointed to the positions of Tallahatchie County registrar of voters and tax assessor before winning an election for sheriff in Bolivar County.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/bl/blanche_bruce.htm (337 words)

	Blanche Bruce Summary
		Born Blanche Bruce in 1841 on a plantation in Farmville, Virginia, he was one of eleven children of Polly Bruce, a slave.
		Bruce's political rise in Mississippi was swift: he became an assessor (one who appraises the value of property for local tax purposes) for Bolivar County in 1871, was named county sheriff in 1872, and won a place on a state board that supervised tax assessors that year.
		Bruce served as the District of Columbia recorder of deeds in 1891-93, and again register of the Treasury until his death in 1898.
	www.bookrags.com /Blanche_Bruce (2336 words)

	Blanche Kelso Bruce Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Blanche Kelso Bruce (1841-1898), African American political leader in Mississippi, was the first member of his race to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate.
		Bruce was highly regarded in Bolivar County, where he served as assessor, sheriff, county school superintendent, and member of the Board of Levee Commissioners.
		Bruce continued to be a leader of the Republican party in Mississippi in the 1880s, often speaking from the same platform with white political friends and opponents, and he was a trustee of Howard University.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/blanche-kelso-bruce (439 words)

	Blanche Kelso Bruce
		In February 1874, the Mississippi legislature elected Bruce to the United States Senate.Bruce formally entered the Senate on March 5, 1875, and was elected to three committees: Pensions; Manufactures; and Education and Labor.
		Bruce also appealed for the desegregation of United States Army units and for a Senate inquiry into the violent Mississippi elections of 1875.
		In 1888 Bruce received eleven votes for vice president at the convention that nominated Benjamin Harrison.Harrison, as president, appointed Bruce recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia in 1889.
	joe_kelso.tripod.com /lettersandhistories/bioblanchekelsobruce.htm (734 words)

	Kansans of African Descent
		Blanche Bruce, born in Missouri in 1859, was the first Black to graduate from the University of Kansas [1885].
		Bruce's uncle and namesake, Blanche Kelso Bruce, had founded the first Black school in the United States in the 1860s.
		Blanche Bruce was credited with organizing the first school in the country for Negroes.
	www.kshs.org /people/african_americans.htm (3281 words)

	Blanche Kelso Bruce
		Blanche Kelso Bruce, African American political leader, was born into slavery south of here on 1 Mar. 1841.
		In 1869 Bruce moved back to Mississippi and became active in local and state politics.
		Bruce was the first fl to serve a full term in the Senate (1875-1881).
	historical-markers.net /Pages/States/SingleSigns/BlancheKelsoBruce.htm (104 words)

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		Blanche Kelso Bruce was born into slavery two miles south of Green Bay, Prince Edward County, on 1 March 1841, son of Polly Bruce, a slave, and a Virginia planter.
		Bruce served as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia from 1891-1893 and again as Register of the Treasury from 1897 until his death.
		Senator Bruce died on 17 March 1898 in Washington, DC and was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery in Washington, DC.
	www.fpehs.org /blanchekelsobruce.html (1272 words)

	Department of Historic Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Blanche Kelso Bruce, African American political leader, was born into slavery south of here on 1 Mar. 1841.
		In 1869 Bruce moved back to Mississippi and became active in local and state politics.
		Bruce was the first fl to serve a full term in the Senate (1875-1881).
	www.dhr.virginia.gov /homepage_features/marker_blanche_kelso_bruce.htm (104 words)

	Aetna: African American History Calendar: 1989: Blanche Kelso Bruce
		Born a slave in Virginia, Bruce received a formal early education from the private tutor assigned to teach his owner's son, despite the state ban against educating slaves.
		Bruce used his position to defend the rights of fls and other minorities.
		Bruce realized he would not be reelected to the Senate, and accepted the post of registrar of the Treasury.
	www.aetna.com /foundation/aahcalendar/1989bruce.html (333 words)

	Blanche Bruce Biography (U.S. Senator) — Infoplease.com
		Blanche Kelso Bruce, the son of a fl slave and a white plantation owner, was the first African-American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate.
		Bruce was born into slavery in Virginia, but escaped at the start of the Civil War and made his way to Ohio, where he attended Oberlin College.
		Bruce also served as the recorder of deeds for Washington, D.C., and again as the Register of the Treasury, where he served until his death in 1898.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/blanchebruce.html (285 words)

	A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Blanche K(Elso) Bruce \| PBS
		The son of a slave mother and white planter father, Bruce was well educated as a youth.
		In 1874 Mississippi's Republican-dominated state legislature elected Bruce, a Republican, to a seat in the U.S. Senate.
		Bruce lost his political base in Mississippi with the end of Reconstruction governments in the South.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/blanche_kelso_bruce.html (272 words)

	Stamp would commemorate late Sen. Blanche Kelso Bruce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bruce was elected to the Senate in 1874 by the Mississippi legislature and served from 1875 until 1881.
		Bruce was born into slavery in Virginia on March 1, 1841, and spent his early years in Virginia and Missouri.
		In 1869, Bruce moved to Mississippi to become a planter on a cotton plantation, and later became involved in politics.
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	blanche kelso bruce information -- blanche kelso bruce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		p.171 A delegate to the 1880 convention, Blanche Kelso Bruce was born into slavery in Virginia.
		Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first Black man elected to a full senate term in 1874.
		Blanche Kelso Bruce (Republican) of Mississippi took his seat in the United States Senate on March 3.
	www.brucemycw.info /blanchekelsobruce (610 words)

	blanche bruce information -- blanche bruce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Blanche Bruce died on March 17, 1898 in Washington, D.C. Reference: Black Americans In Congress...
		BRUCE, Blanche Kelso,(1841 - 1898) Senate Years of Service: 1875-1881 Party: Republican Library of Congress BRUCE, Blanche Kelso, a Senator from Mississippi; born in slavery near Farmville, Prince...
		Reconstruction is covered with the elections of Black senators and congressmen such as Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce and Congressman Joseph Hayne Rainey, the 14th and 15th Amendments to the...
	www.brucemycw.info /blanchebruce (512 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Paintings > Blanche Kelso Bruce
		Born into slavery in 1841, Blanche Kelso Bruce became the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate, as well as the first African American to preside over the Senate.
		One of 11 children, Bruce was born near Farmville, Virginia, and was taken to Mississippi and Missouri by his owner.
		In the Senate, Bruce was a member of the committees on Pensions, Manufactures, and Education and Labor.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/art/artifact/Painting_32_00039.htm (686 words)

	Amazon.com: "Blanche Kelso Bruce": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Edward Bruce: Politician, Journalist, and Self-Trained Historian of the African Diaspora: Politician, Journalist, and Self-Trained Historian of the African Diaspora by Ralph L. Crowder
		Garrett A. Morgan (1877-1963) Blanche Kelso Bruce (1841-1898) 23...
		Blanche Kelso Bruce of Mississippi, sat in seat number two of the Senate Chamber, awaiting his swearing in.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Blanche-Kelso-Bruce (473 words)

	Black Facts Online: Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a U.S. Senator.
		Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a U.S. Senator.
		Blanche Kelso Bruce was a US Senator from Mississippi; the first fl man to serve a full term in the senate, and the first person born into slavery to preside over the senate.
		Bruce was the first African American to be represented on US currency, in the form of his signature as Register of the Treasury.
	www.blackfacts.com /fact.asp?ID=1257 (190 words)

	Blanche K. Bruce 1st Black Senator Signed Deed
		Bruce was the first African American to serve a full term in the United States Senate.
		Blanche Kelso Bruce was born into slavery near Farmville, Virginia on March 1, 1841.
		He was appointed registrar of voters in Tallahatchie County, tax assessor of Bolivar County, and elected sheriff and tax collector of Bolivar where he also served as supervisor of education.
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,blanche-bruce-1st,99049.html (232 words)

	BLANCHE KELSO BRUCE - DEED SIGNED 06/27/1890
		BLANCHE K. Manuscript DS: "B.K. Bruce" as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia on docket panel folded in fourths to 3½x8½ affixed to 3½p, 8½x13½.
		Deed from James D. Daly, Trustee, of Washington, D.C. to Elizabeth C. Jacobi of the City of Georgetown, D.C. for land in Georgetown at Prospect and Fayette Streets.
		Bruce, a former slave, was the first Black American to be elected to a full six-year term in the U.S. Senate (1875-1881).
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2003/black/BLANCHE_KELSO_BRUCE.htm (183 words)

	Blanche Kelso Bruce - Mississippi US Senetor : Black History Daily
		Blanche Kelso Bruce was a US Senator from Mississippi; the first fl man to serve a full term in the senate, and the first person born into slavery to preside over the senate.
		While serving in the senate, he was an advocate for civil rights for fls, native Americans, Chinese immigrants and former Confederates (as we remember, the radical republicans weren't too nice to that group).
		After serving in the Senate, Bruce held many government appointments, including Register of the Treasury (appointed by President Garfield), recorder of deeds for DC, and a second term as Register of the Treasury.
	www.blackseek.com /bh/2001/157_BBruce.htm (175 words)

	Blanche Kelso Bruce Academy-Depaul - Detroit, Michigan - MI - school overview
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		An opportunity for the principal at Blanche Kelso Bruce Academy-Depaul to speak about curriculum, special programs, activities, goals and more.
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	Dodd Speaks at Blanche Kelso Bruce Portrait Unveiling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Senator Dodd, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and a member of the Senate Commission on Art, acted as master of ceremonies in an event to unveil a portrait of Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first African-American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate.
		The portrait of Senator Bruce was painted by Washington, D.C. artist Simmie Knox and will be displayed near the public Senate Chamber galleries on the third floor of the U.S. Capitol.
		Born into slavery, Bruce was named to the Senate by the Mississippi state legislature in 1874.
	www.senate.gov /~dodd/events/02/0917b.htm (223 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Bruce
		Bruce, David Kirkpatrick Este (1898-1977) — also known as David K. Bruce — of Maryland; Virginia.
		Son of William Cabell Bruce; brother of David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce.
		Bruce, Sam — of Fairview, Brown County, Kan. Democrat.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/bruce.html (729 words)

	S. 3964 - [Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce Commemerative Stamp Act] - US Senate Bill
		S. To provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce.
		To provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce.
		(a) In General- The Postmaster General shall issue a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce.
	www.theorator.com /bills109/s3964.html (191 words)

	Tangled Roots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bruce was the first Black person to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate.
		During Reconstruction, in 1875, Bruce became U.S. Senator from Mississippi.
		Rabinowitz, Howard N. "Three Reconstruction Leaders: Blanche K. Bruce, Robert Brown Eliott, and Holland Thompson." In Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Leon Litwack and August Meier.
	www.yale.edu /glc/tangledroots/tr12bb4.htm (183 words)

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