With acknowledgment and thanks to The New York Times:
ON THIS DAY
On Feb. 25, 1870, Hiram R. Revels, Republican of 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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