| LC control no. | n 85121408 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898 |
| Variant(s) | Bruce, Blanche K. (Blanche Kelso), 1841-1898 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Bolivar County (Miss.) |
| Birth date | 18410301 |
| Death date | 18980317 |
| Place of birth | Farmville (Va.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Field of activity | Politics |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate Oberlin College Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Mississippi. Legislature. Senate United States. Department of the Treasury |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians Legislators |
| Found in | LCCN 65-17229: Sterling, P. Four took freedom, 1967 (hdg.: Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898; usage; Blanche K. Bruce) LC data base, 8/7/85 (hdg.: Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898; usage: Blanche K. Bruce) Buckmaster, H. The fighting congressmen, 1971: t.p. (Blanche K. Bruce) p. 94 (Blanche Kelso Bruce) NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for Roscoe Conkling Bruce papers, 1897-1924 (Blanche K. Bruce, father of Roscoe Conkling Bruce; former U.S. senator, of Mississippi) African American National Biography, accessed December 27, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bruce, Blanche Kelso; slave, U.S. Senator, political figure; born 01 March 1841 in Farmville, Virginia, United States; was born into slavery, took the surname of the man who owned his mother; after the Civil War attended Oberlin College, later moved to Bolivar County in the Mississippi Delta (1867); organized plantation blacks into the new Republican Party; was elected sergeant at arms of the Mississippi state senate; won election to the joint office of sheriff and tax collector of Bolivar County (1871); was a county superintendent of education; was named to the board of levee commissioners for a three-county group (1872); elected to the U.S. Senate by a nearly unanimous vote, the first black to be elected to a full term (1875); lived in Washington, retained his plantation in Mississippi; served as a register of the U.S. Treasury; was a director of the black exhibits in the Industrial Cotton Centennial Exposition held in New Orleans (1884-1885); died 17 March 1898 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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