Hiram R. Revels
The first Black man to sit in the United States Senate, seated in 1870 in the chair Jefferson Davis had left. The Senate argued for two days about whether to let him take it.
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The first Black man to sit in the United States Senate, seated in 1870 in the chair Jefferson Davis had left. The Senate argued for two days about whether to let him take it.