revels

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Check the history books for a better example of moral leadership: Hiram Revels, the first Black Republican in the Senate.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2024

According to the Senate website, Hiram Revels became the first Black senator when he was sworn into office in February 1870, months before Rainey’s arrival.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2022

He followed in the distant footsteps of African Americans Hiram Revels, elected in 1870 to fill a Senate seat from Mississippi, and Blanche K. Bruce, elected to the Senate in 1875, also from Mississippi.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2021

It is a “school resource officer” like Corporal Revels, an often-overlooked role in law enforcement that is under the national glare like never before.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2018

His friends or his merits obtained for him, it is said, the Mastership of the Revels, the posts of Gentleman Extraordinary to James I., and Groom of the Privy Chamber to Anne of Denmark.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George