Hiram Rhodes Revels

Hiram Rhodes Revels (27 September 1827 – 16 Januari 1901) adalah seorang Senator Amerika Serikat dari Partai Republik, pendeta dalam Gereja Episkopal Methodis Afrika, dan administrator perguruan tinggi. Lahir sebagai orang bebas di Carolina Utara ia kemudian tinggal dan bekerja di Ohio, dimana ia dipilih sebelum Perang Saudara. Ia menjadi Afrika Amerika pertama yang menjabat dalam Kongres Amerika Serikat dimana ia terpilih dalam Senat Amerika Serikat sebagai anggota Partai Republik untuk mewakili Mississippi pada 1870 dan 1871 dalam era Rekonstruksi.

Hiram Revels
Senator Amerika Serikat dari Mississippi
Masa jabatan 23 Februari 1870 – 3 Maret 1871
Pendahulu Albert G. Brown Pengganti James L. Alcorn
Informasi pribadi
Lahir	Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827-09-27)27 September 1827 Fayetteville, Carolina Utara, Amerika Serikat
Meninggal	16 Januari 1901(1901-01-16) (umur 73) Aberdeen, Mississippi, Amerika Serikat
Partai politik	Republik
Suami/istri	Phoebe Bass
Anak	8
Pendidikan	Beech Grove Quaker Seminary Darke County Seminary Knox College
Karier militer
Pihak	Amerika Serikat  • Union
Dinas/cabang	Union Army
Masa dinas	1863–1865
Satuan	Chaplain Corps
Pertempuran/perang	Perang Saudara Amerika
Sunting kotak info • L • B

Referensi

Sumber primer

• Borome, Joseph A. "The Autobiography of Hiram Rhodes Revels Together with Some Letters by and about Him," Midwest Journal, 5 (Winter 1952–1953), pp. 79–92.
• Lynch, John R. The Facts of Reconstruction (1913), Online at Project Gutenberg – Memoir by Mississippi Congressman (a freedman) who served during Reconstruction

Rujukan lain

• Foner, Eric. Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction. 1996. Revised. ISBN 0-8071-2082-0.
• Gravely, William B., "Hiram Revels Protests Racial Separation in the Methodist Episcopal Church (1876)," Methodist History, 8 (1970), pp. 13–20.
• Hamilton, Brian, "The Monuments We Never Built," Edge Effects, August 22, 2017 http://edgeeffects.net/hiram-revels
• 0Harris, William C., The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi, Louisiana State University Press, 1979
• Haskins, James, Distinguished African American Political and Governmental Leaders, Oryx Press. 1999. pp: 216–8.
• Hildebrand, Reginald F., The Times Were Strange and Stirring: Methodist Preachers and the Crisis of Emancipation, Duke University Press, 1995
• State Library of North Carolina
• Clergy Politicians in Mississippi
• Biographical sketch at the U.S. Senate website
• Portrait and biography, Harper's Weekly, February 19, 1870, p. 116
• "The Colored Member Admitted to His Seat in the Senate", New York Times, February 25, 1870
• "Hiram Revels pioneered southern Black politics". African American Registry. Media Business Solutions. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal May 6, 2003. Diakses tanggal November 1, 2012. 

Pranala luar

• Hiram Rhodes Revels di Biographical Directory of the United States Congress