List of United States senators from Mississippi - Wikipedia
WEBAs of February 2022, 51 people have served as U.S. senators from Mississippi. John C. Stennis was Mississippi's longest-serving senator (1947–1989). Mississippi last elected a Democrat in 1982, and both seats have been occupied by the Republicans since 1989.
U.S. Senate: Hiram Revels: First African American Senator
WEBSenator Hiram Revels of Mississippi was the first African American member of the United States Senate. He took the oath of office on February 25, 1870. Library of Congress.
Black Senators Full List: Every African American In US Senate - NewsOne
WEBOct 3, 2023 · Blanche K. Bruce, who was the Accessor and Sheriff of Bolivar County, Mississippi, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1874. He was the first African American to serve a full term in the Senate....
The first Black U.S. senator lived an extraordinary life
WEBJan 6, 2021 · After he left the Senate in 1881, Mississippi passed laws—part of a wave of new Jim Crow laws—blocking Black people from political participation.
Hiram Revels: First African American Senator
WEBFeb 18, 2020 · 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.
On this day in 1870, Hiram Revels became firsst Black U.S. senator ...
WEBFeb 25, 2024 · Two days after Mississippi was readmitted to the Union, Hiram Revels became the first Black American elected as a U.S. senator. “All men are created equal, says the great Declaration,” Republican Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts said , “and now a great act attests this verity.
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WEBNov 25, 2018 · Hiram Revels, an African American preacher and educator, was elected to the Senate from Mississippi to become the first black member of Congress. (Library of Congress)
Hiram Rhodes Revels - U.S. National Park Service
WEBMar 6, 2023 · In Mississippi, he served as an alderman at a church in Natchez, as the President of Alcorn University, in Lorman, near Port Gibson, as a Mississippi state senator, as the first African American congressman, and as an interim Mississippi Secretary of State.
Hiram Revels first Black U.S. senator in 1870 - Mississippi Today
WEBFeb 25, 2023 · Two days after Mississippi was readmitted to the Union, Hiram Revels became the first Black American elected as U.S. senator. “All men are created equal, says the great Declaration,” Republican Sen, Charles Sumner of Massachusetts said , “and now a great act attests this verity.
Raphael Warnock and the Solitude of the Black Senator
WEBJan 20, 2021 · Revels’s election was the product of newly enfranchised freedmen who had voted 115 Black members into Mississippi’s Legislature, which then chose him for office in Washington.