Who was the first African-American elected to the U.S. Congress?

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Mississippi elected Hiram Rhodes Revels to the U.S. Senate in 1870, making him the first African-American to serve in either house of Congress. Revels, who was born in 1827, was never enslaved, and he fought in the Civil War. His landmark election to the Senate was also auspicious for a historical coincidence: Jefferson Davis was a U.S. senator from Mississippi prior to becoming the president of the Confederate States.

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