Hiram Rhodes Revels
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![Letter dated January 25, 1870 from the Governor of the State of Mississippi and the Secretary of State of Mississippi that certified the election of Hiram Revels to the United States Senate.](/Images/godic/202501/18/Credentials_for_Senator_Hiram_Rhodes_Revels_of_Mississippi,_the_first_African_American_to_serve_in_the_Senate,_January_25,_1870.1824.png")
![Political cartoon: Revels (seated) replaces Jefferson Davis (left; dressed as Iago from William Shakespeare's Othello) in US Senate. Harper's Weekly Feb. 19, 1870. Davis had been a senator from Mississippi until 1861.](/Images/godic/202501/18/Revels18701824.jpg")
Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827 – January 16, 1901) was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), a Republican politician, and college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War. 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 during the Reconstruction era.