Hiram Revel Pt.2

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During Reconstruction , Revels was elected a council member in Natchez in 1868.In 1869 he was elected to represent Adams county in the Mississippi State Senate.
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In 1870, Revels was elected by a vote of 81 to 15 in the Mississippi legislature to finish the term of one of the state's two seats in the U.S. Senate, which had been left vacant since the Civil War.
On February 25, 1870, Revels, on a party-line vote of 48-8 with Republicans voting in favor and Democrats voting against, became the first African- American to be seated in the United States.
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He died January 16,1901 while attending a church conference. He was buried in Holly springs Mississippi.
in 1871, after his term as U.S. Senator expired, Revels accepted teaching at the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College , and became the first president of this historically black college.
In 1873, Revels took a leave of absence from Alcorn to serve as Mississippi's secretary of state ad interim. He was dismissed from Alcorn in 1874 when he campaigned against the reelection of Governor of Mississippi Adelbert Ames. He was reappointed in 1876 by the new Democratic administration and served until his retirement in 1882.

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