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HiramRevels_Harpers-Weekly_Feb.-19-1870-p.-116Hiram Revels: First African American Senator

Two days after Mississippi is readmitted to the Union on February 23, 1870, Hiram Revels, a schoolmaster and preacher, becomes the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.