Revels, Hiram R. (Hiram Rhoades), 1827-1901
Revels began his political career as an alderman in Natchez, Miss. in 1868 and was elected to the Mississippi State Senate in 1869. The state legislature in January 1870 elected him to the U.S. Senate, and after acrimonious debate, the Senate seated him to fill the expired term of Jefferson Davis, and he served as senator from February 1870 until March 1871. Among other issues, Revels voted for enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment. His political career, however was typified by some of his accommodationist views and practices.
In the early 1870's Revels was named the first president of Alcorn College, a black school, in Rodney, Mississippi, but he was not an adept administrator and became caught between the demands of a white dominated legislature and some members of the faculty and student body who wanted him to be a more aggressive leader. Despite these problems, he served as president from 1871 to 1873 and again from 1876 to 1882.
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