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A curmudgeon looks at the world
25 February 2014
History for the day
On 25 February 1870,
Hiram Rhodes Revels
(photo), a
Republican
from Mississippi, became the first black member of the
United States Senate
, as he was sworn in to serve out the unexpired term of
Jefferson Davis
.
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