[DOC] [TLE] Hiram R. Revels - Academic, Minister, U.S. Representative ... [PAR] Apr 2, 2014 ... Hiram R. Revels is the first African American to serve in the United States Senate. 
... United States senator, representing the state of Mississippi. ... In 1870, the state 
congress selected Revels to fill a vacant seat in the United States Senate. ... the 
seat he occupied had previously belonged to Jefferson Davis,... [DOC] [TLE] REVELS, Hiram Rhodes | US House of Representatives: History, Art ... [PAR] His first pastorate was likely in Richmond, Indiana, where he was elected an 
elder to the ... Hiram Revels was the principal of a black school in Baltimore and 
... and future Confederate President Jefferson Davis both vacated Mississippi's 
U.S. ... 1870, the Mississippi state legislature voted 85 to 15 to seat Hiram Revels 
in... [DOC] [TLE] U.S. Senate: 1851: First African American Senator -- February 25 ... [PAR] 1851: First African American Senator -- February 25, 1870. ... burst into applause 
as senator-elect Hiram Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, ... Revels was 
about to become the first African American to serve in the Senate. ... him to one of 
Mississippi's vacant U.S. Senate seats as that state prepared to rejoin the Union. [DOC] [TLE] How the First Black US Senator Was Nearly Kept From His Seat - Time [PAR] Feb 25, 2015 ... 25, 1870: Hiram Revels, a Mississippi Republican, is sworn in as the first ... The 
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Ensemble .... first black Senator, serving out the unexpired term in a Senate seat 
... The state's other seat had formerly been occupied by Confederate... [DOC] [TLE] Hiram Rhodes Revels - Wikipedia [PAR] Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827  January 16, 1901) was a minister 
in the African ... He became the first African American to serve in the U.S. 
Congress when he was elected to the United States Senate to represent 
Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 .... African-American Religious Leaders: A-Z of 
African Americans. [DOC] [TLE] Today in black history: First black U.S. Senator sworn in ... [PAR] Feb 25, 2014 ... hiram. On February 25, 1870, Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi was sworn in as the 
first black U.S. Senator. ... After the end of the Civil War, the primary task of the 
newly elected Mississippi state senate was to fill U.S. Senate seats. In 1861, 
Albert Brown and future Confederate President Jefferson Davis both... [DOC] [TLE] H.Doc. 108-224 Black Americans in Congress 1870-2007 [PAR] Dec 17, 2015 ... Appendix B: Black-American Representatives and Senators by ... Appendix G: 
Black Americans in Party Leadership Positions, ... The arrival of senator Hiram 
revels of mississippi and ... congressional seats were held by southern slave 
owners. ... first black democrat to serve in congress. de Priest, the. [DOC] [TLE] Tim Scott: How many black senators have there been, from the ... [PAR] Dec 17, 2012 ... [T]wo African-Americans were elected to the Senate during the post-Civil War 
occupation of the South. The first was Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Mississippi state 
senator who was selected in 1870 to fill the seat vacated by Jefferson Davis, who'
d left to become president of the defunct Confederacy. Prior to the... [DOC] [TLE] From North Carolina to Mississippi to the U.S. Senate: Hiram R ... [PAR] Sep 27, 2015 ... Portrait of Mississippi Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels by Theodor Kaufmann ... of 
Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first black man to serve as a U.S. senator ... have 
enslaved forever to take and occupy his seat upon this floor. ... In the year 1870, 
the United States Senate conducted a three-day ..... General Inquiries. [DOC] [TLE] Reconstruction | United States history | Britannica.com [PAR] May 5, 2015 ... It was put into operation in parts of the Union-occupied Confederacy ... Congress 
refused to seat the representatives and senators elected ... and Civil War 
veterans, the black political leadership pressed for the ... Hiram Revels (seated at 
far left) of

Question: In 1870 the first black U.S. senator, Hiram Revels of Miss., occupied the Senate seat of this Confederate leader
Answer: Jefferson Davis