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Hiram Rhoades Revels Biography

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REVELS, Hiram R., clergyman, United States senator, was born Sept. 1, 1822, in Fayetteville, N. C. He settled at Natchez, Miss.; was chosen a member of the city council; and was a senator in congress from Mississippi from 1870 to 1871.

Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1901) 781.