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In January 1870 he was elected to the U.S. Senate to take the seat vacated by Albert G. Brown in 1861 . Revels took his oath only five years after the Civil War.

When did Revels officially become a United States senator ?

In 1870, Mississippi's Hiram Revels was elected as the nation's first African American senator. Revels, who was born in North Carolina in 1827, attended Knox College in Illinois before working as a clergyman at Baltimore, Maryland's African Methodist Episcopal Church. During the Civil War, he organized two black regiments and participated in the Mississippi Battle of Vicksburg. He was appointed by the Mississippi state legislature to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate during the period of Reconstruction, and he soon rose to prominence as a vocal opponent of racial segregation. Even though Revels's year-long tenure in the Senate was brief, he made history for African Americans in Congress.

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