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  Hiram Rhodes Revels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827 – January 16, 1901) was a veteran of the American Civil War and the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Revels was born free in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and was tutored by a fl woman for his early education.
Revels was successful, however, in championing the cause of fl workers who had been barred by their color from working at the Washington Navy Yard.
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 Office for Minority Affairs | UNC Chapel Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Hiram Rhodes Revels, a son of North Carolina, became the first fl man to serve as a United States Senator.
Revels was born a free man in 1827 in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Revels served in the Senate from 1870-1871, returning to Mississippi to be the president of Alcorn College, the first fl college in Mississippi.
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 Hiram Rhodes Revels
Hiram Revels, the first fl member of the United States Senate, was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, of free parents, on September 27, 1827.
On January 20, 1870, Revels was chosen by a legislative vote of eight-five to fifteen to fill the unexpired term of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis in the United States Senate.
A majority of senators rejected these arguments, and on February 25 Revels was seated by a vote of forty-eight to eight.During his brief Senate term Revels was a member of the Committee on Education and Labor and the Committee on the District of Columbia.
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Hiram Revels and Richard Primus Primus then goes on to claim that everybody he has asked believes that Hiram Revels should have been seated, and that almost everybody who so believes does so because of "normative constitutional principles" rather than "technical...
Hiram Rhodes ReveIs (September 27, 1827 – January 16, 1901) was a veteran of the American CiviI War and the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
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 Hiram Revels
Fayetteville, N.C. Born a free fl, Revels worked as a barber and as a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1870 Revels was elected as the first African American member of the United States Senate.
Revels served as senator from Feb. 25, 1870, to March 4, 1871.
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 Hiram Rhodes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Hiram Rhodes Revels, an eloquent Methodist Episcopal minister, arrived in Terre Haute during the 1840s after attending a Quaker seminary in Wayne County, Ind., and graduating from Knox College in Bloomington, Ill.
Revels played an essential part in establishing a private school at First and Sheets (now Crawford) streets, more than a decade before the first Indiana public school existed.
Polite and unassuming, Revels was a national sensation and honored guest at lavish Washington receptions.
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 African American Railroader Month
Hiram Rhodes Revels (1822-1901), was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate.
Revels was born free in Fayetteville, N.C. He was educated at seminaries in Indiana and Ohio and attended Knox College.
Revels helped establish fl churches and schools in the Midwest and the South.
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 Hiram R. Revels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Revels was elected from his adopted state of Mississippi, and served for approximately one year.
Revels settled in Natchez, Mississippi in 1866 and was appointed alderman by the Union military governor of the state.
In 1870, Revels was elected to the United States Senate to replace Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy.
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 Black Athlete Sports Network—Blackbox-Black History Month Hiram Revels
But here he was Hiram Revels arriving in Washington at the start of February 1870, getting himself a room and then proceeding to the Capitol.
And the state of Mississippi Certified that Hiram Revels was a citizen of the Great State of Mississippi and as such had been elected by their state legislature (before Senators were elected by voters) to the U.S. Senate.
Revels' arm and walked him down that Center Aisle in the very same Senate Chambers in use today, and brought him to the Well, before a packed gallery....
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 Hiram-Georgia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Hiram Rhoades Revels was born a free man of African American and Indian descent in a...
Hiram Revels was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1822,...statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/bio/afro/revels.htm - 7k - Cached - Similar pages Welcome to Hiram Inn Home PageOffers a retreat site with twelve luxury rooms decorated in the style of the early 1800s.
Hiram Warren Johnson was born in Sacramento in 1866.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Rhodes
Rhodes, Glen — of Presho, Lyman County, S.Dak. Republican.
Rhodes, I. — of Welch, McDowell County, W.Va. Republican.
Rhodes, Opal — of Bethany, Harrison County, Mo. Democrat.
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 Hiram, - Hiram Abiff, the True King of Egypt,1554BC
REVELS, Hiram Rhodes, a Senator from Mississippi; born in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, NC, on September 27, 1827; attended various schools, seminaries,
Hiram Bingham III, born in Honolulu, Hawai'i, served as Governor of His son Hiram Bingham IV was a diplomat and World War II hero, while another son,
Hiram James Williamson, Alamo defender, sergeant-major of the Alamo garrison, son of Hiram Williamson, Sr., was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1810.
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 peter fillat architects :: The Revels at 104 W. Madison St.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Bought in the 1850s by the First Presbyterian Church as a designated place of worship for fl members of its congregation, it has since then gone through several conversions and is today a 13-condo residential building after being redesigned by PFA.
Its name "The Revels" is commemorative of one of its early pastors, Hiram Rhodes Revels, who also went on after the Civil War to become the first African American senator in the United States.
In addition to adding residential units on the roof of the existing structure, PFA has succeeded in preserving some of the original first floor decor such as ornamental plaster and ceiling details, though many of the original aesthetic elements had been destroyed during prior this conversion.
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 Revelation
One immediate goal of Revelation was to encourage persecuted Christians; absolute assurance of interpretation stops there.
Hiram Revels - Hiram Revels Senator from Mississippi; first African American senator Born: September 27, 1827...
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, allegorical figures in the Book of Revelation in the Bible.
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 Hiram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Hiram is the name of some places in the United States of America:
Hiram (2004 TV series) was a TV series in the Philippines
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 Slavery and the Making of America . The Slave Experience: Legal Rights & Gov't | PBS
This document certifies that Hiram Rhodes Revels was elected to Senator in January 1870.
H.R. Revels was elected United States Senator by the Legislature of this state, on the 20th day of January 1870, for the unexpired term which commenced on the 4th day of March 1865, and which will end on the 4th day of March 1871.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Mississippi to be affixed this 25th day of January 1870.
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 REVELS, Hiram Rhodes (1827-1901) Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Libby, Billy W. “Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi Takes His Seat, January-February, 1870.”; Journal of Mississippi History 37 (November 1975): 381-94.
Singer, Donald L. “For Whites Only: The Seating of Hiram Revels in the United States Senate.” Negro History Bulletin 35 (March 1972): 60-63.
Wheeler, Gerald E. “Hiram R. Revels, Negro Educator and Statesman.” Master’s thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1949.
bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=R000166   (178 words)

  
 Black History
Elected alderman of Natchez Mississippi in 1868 he went on to serve in the state senate in 1870.
On February 23, 1870 Hiram Rhodes Revels was sworn in as the first African-American Senator.
At Rutgers University he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the first fl All-American football player; he also graduated from Columbia University law school.
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 The Sacramento Observer - Online Edition
Gabriel Prosser also led the unsuccessful slave revolt in Virginia in 1800.
Rhodes Revels, was a member of what political party?
Hiram Rhodes Revels was of the same party as Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party.
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 Hiram Rhodes REVELS
American National Biography ; Dictionary of American Biography ; 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.
Gibbs, Warmoth T. “Hiram R. Revels and His Times.” Quarterly Review of Higher Education Among Negroes 8 (January 1940): 25-37; (April 1940): 64-91.
Sewell, George A. “Hiram Rhodes Revels: Another Evaluation.”Negro History Bulletin 38 (December 1974-January 1975): 336-39.
www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/revels-hiram-rhodes.html   (227 words)

  
 Hiram Revels
This Day in History: February 25 - February 25 Yesterday Tomorrow 1570 Elizabeth I, queen of England, was excommunicated by Pope Pius...
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Related content from HighBeam Research on: Hiram Revels
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 The HistoryMakers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Hiram Rhodes Revels is elected the first fl United States Senator, representing Adams County, Mississippi.
The first Black U.S. Senator, Hiram R. Revels, made his first official speech before the U.S. Senate on this date in Washington, D.C. Senator Revels was a Republican and was represented the state of Mississippi.
He filled the seat formerly held by Jefferson Davis.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Resa to Reynier
Revell, Alexander H. — of Cook County, Ill.
Delegate to Illinois state constitutional convention 29th District, 1920-22.
Revelle, Paul — of Seattle, King County, Wash. Democrat.
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 DOBB: April 2001
That Julius Thompson speaks with authority in the five categories that he covers in this book is eminently demonstrable.
His doctoral dissertation at Princeton was on Hiram Revels.
He is the author of a book on Revels, published by Arno Press.
www.queenhyte.com /dobb/dobb_archives/dobb_01/apr_01.htm   (1581 words)

  
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Revelation -Weigel lecture The Rev. Gustave A. Weigel, S.J. Papers
"REVELATION OF A ROOM" BY ELIZABETH JENNINGS - MSS POEM Elizabeth Jennings Papers, Group 2
REVELS, HIRAM RHODES -ALBUMEN PORTRAIT -SENATOR R-MISSISSIPPI The Barnes Publishing Company Photo Archives
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 Hiram Rhodes Revels
The Life and times of Hiram Rhodes Revels
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