Hiram Revels Collection 1870-1948

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Hiram Revels Collection 1870-1948

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Hiram Rhoades Revels served as a clergyman, first African American appointed to become a United States senator from a southern state during Reconstruction, and college president. He was born free in Fayetteville, North Carolina where he received his early education, and continued his studies at a Quaker seminary in Ohio, later graduating from Knox College in Galesburg (1857). Revels' birth date is unclear as published sources indicate 1821 while his daughter's autobiography of him gives the year 1827. In 1845 Revels was ordained a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore. He served A.M.E. congregations in Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Texas and elsewhere. From 1858 to 1863 he was the first African American pastor of the Madison Street Presbyterian Church in Baltimore. He served briefly as a chaplain in the Union Army, helped the Freedmen's Bureau set up schools in Mississippi, and assisted the provost marshall in managing the affairs of the freedmen in Vicksburg.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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Cayton, Susie Revels, 1870-1943

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Revels, Hiram Rhodes, c. 1827-1901

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Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827 – January 16, 1901) was a Republican U.S. Senator, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War. He became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress when he was appointed to the United States Senate as a Republican to represent Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during the Reconstruction era. During the America...