41st United States Congress
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The 41st United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
United States Capitol (1877)
President of the Senate Schuyler Colfax
Senate President pro tempore Henry B. Anthony
Speaker of the House, James G. Blaine
Hiram R. Revels
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Hiram Rhodes Revels was an American politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he
41st United States Congress
…February 12, 1870: Utah Territory gave women the right to vote February 25, 1870: Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American in the U.S. Congress March 18, 1869: Public Credit Act of 1869, Sess. 1, ch. 1, 16 Stat. 1…
Revels, c. 1860–1875
Revels was the first Black American to serve in the United States Senate.
Political cartoon: Revels (seated) replaces Jefferson Davis (left; dressed as Iago from William Shakespeare's Othello) in US Senate. Harper's Weekly February 19, 1870. Davis had been a senator from Mississippi until 1861.
Grave of Hiram Revels in Holly Springs