| LC control no. | n 81024766 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Revels, Hiram R. (Hiram Rhoades), 1827-1901 |
| Variant(s) | Revels, Hiram Rhoades, 1827?-1901 Revels, Hiram Rhodes, 1827?-1901 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000021811989 67780143 Q719200 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Washington (D.C.) |
| Birth date | 1827-09-27 |
| Death date | 1901-01-16 |
| Place of birth | Fayetteville (N.C.) |
| Place of death | Aberdeen (Miss.) |
| Affiliation | Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.) African Methodist Episcopal Church United States. Congress. Senate Alcorn University Rust College |
| Profession or occupation | Clergy Educators Legislators--United States College presidents |
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| Found in | Lawson, E. The gentleman from ... 1960. Black congressmen during Reconstruction, 2002: p. 319 (Hiram Rhodes Revels, 1827-1901, Senate, Mississippi .. first African American to serve in the Senate of the U.S.) OCLC database, Sept. 4, 2014 (usage: Hiram R. Revels) African American National Biography, accessed March 25, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Revels, Hiram Rhoades; clergy, educator, U.S. Senator, college president; born 27 September 1827 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States; studied theology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (1845); entered Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois (1856); ordained minister (1845-1847) and confirmed elder (1849) at African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church; pastor at AME churches in St. Louis (1853) and in Baltimore, MD (1857); presiding elder at a church in Natchez, Mississippi (1864-1868); ran as a Republican in the state senate and won (1869); elected to fill the U.S. senator seat from Mississippi, sworn in and seated (1871); became the first president of Alcorn University in Claiborne County, Mississippi (1872-1874 and 1876-1882); taught theology at Rust College, Holly Springs (1882); died 16 January 1901 in Aberdeen, Mississippi, United States) New York times, 18 Jan. 2021: in an Editorial entitled, "The legacy of racial tyranny" on page A20 (Hiram Rhodes Revels, America's first Black senator, a republican from Mississippi; ordained preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; raised in North Carolina and served as a chaplain to a Black regiment during the Civil War; elected to the Mississippi State Senate in 1869; in 1870, the State Legislature chose Revels to fill one of Mississippi's two U.S. Senate seats, both of which had been abandoned several years earlier when the state seceded; sworn in to the United States Senate on Feb. 25, 1870) |
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