1869-1871 Hiram Rhodes Revels - First African American appointed to serve in the U.S. Senate
Title
1869-1871 Hiram Rhodes Revels - First African American appointed to serve in the U.S. Senate
Subject
Description
Hiram Rhodes Revels: 1827-1901. Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina . Revels is the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress (41st, 1869-1871). He was a member of the Republican Party. Revels was ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. His first pastorate was likely to have been in Richmond, Indiana, where he was elected an elder to the AME Indiana Conference in 1849. Revels traveled throughout the country, carrying out religious work and educating fellow African Americans in Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee. He arrived in Washington to serve in elected office as a Senator for Mississippi at the end of January 1870, but could not present his credentials until Mississippi was readmitted to the United States on February 23.
Creator
Library of Congress Photoduplication Service
Date
1870
Source
Photoprint made by Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, from original glass negative: Brady-Handy Collection
Source: United States House of Representatives. Kenneth H. Williams, “Revels, Hiram Rhoades,” American National Biography 18 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
Source: United States House of Representatives. Kenneth H. Williams, “Revels, Hiram Rhoades,” American National Biography 18 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
Relation
Rights
Library of Congress
Publisher
Library of Congress
Contributor
Mathew Brady & Levin Corbin Handy
Format
Medium: Photomechanical Print
Language
English
Type
Figures
Identifier
Elected
Coverage
Historic
Files
Collection
Reference
Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1869-1871 Hiram Rhodes Revels - First African American appointed to serve in the U.S. Senate, Library of Congress, 1870
Cite As
Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, “1869-1871 Hiram Rhodes Revels - First African American appointed to serve in the U.S. Senate,” Virtual Museum of Public Service, accessed March 29, 2024, https://vmps.omeka.net/items/show/80.