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Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the US Congress and in the US Senate representing Mississippi from 23 February 1870 until 3 March 1871. He was a minister, Civil War Union Army Chaplain who served at Vicksburg and a college president well known as an orator and a champion of Civil Rights.

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Q: Who were the first black US Senators from Mississippi during the Reconstruction era after the US Civil War?
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