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Revels

American  
[rev-uhlz] / ˈrɛv əlz /

noun

  1. Hiram Rhoades 1822–1901, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician: first Black senator 1870–71.


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Check the history books for a better example of moral leadership: Hiram Revels, the first Black Republican in the Senate.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2024

According to the Senate website, Hiram Revels became the first Black senator when he was sworn into office in February 1870, months before Rainey’s arrival.

From Seattle Times Feb. 3, 2022

He followed in the distant footsteps of African Americans Hiram Revels, elected in 1870 to fill a Senate seat from Mississippi, and Blanche K. Bruce, elected to the Senate in 1875, also from Mississippi.

From Washington Post Mar. 12, 2021

Pamela Revels when students have been eating pancakes at the school breakfast.

From New York Times Mar. 4, 2018

His friends or his merits obtained for him, it is said, the Mastership of the Revels, the posts of Gentleman Extraordinary to James I., and Groom of the Privy Chamber to Anne of Denmark.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

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