He was the first black US Senator to serve a full term in Congress.
Blanche K. Bruce (1841-1898) was the son of a slaveowner and one of his slaves, and was legally a slave himself until freed as a boy by his biological father. After the Civil War, he served as sergeant-at-arms for the Mississippi state senate, and was elected US senator by the legislature in 1874, as one of the last Southern Republican officials of the Reconstruction Era. He served from 1875 to 1881, and in 1879 became the first and only former slave to preside over the US Senate.
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He worked for the rights of African Americans.
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Blanche K. Bruce was married to Josephine Beall, a prominent figure in Washington, D.C. society. They married in 1878, and their union was notable as they were one of the first interracial couples in the U.S. Bruce, an important political figure during the Reconstruction era, served as a U.S. Senator from Mississippi.
Blanche K. Bruce.
Blanche K. Bruce House was created in 1875.
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