Hiram Revels

Hiram Revels, U.S. Senator during Reconstruction

This undated image provided by the Library of Congress shows Hiram Revels of Mississippi, the first black senator in U.S. history, who served just one year from Feb, 1870, to March, 1871, filling out the remaining year of an unexpired term. (AP Photo/Library of Congress)

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