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Which African American won the Senate seat once held by Jefferson Davis?
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The African American who won the first Senate seat was Hiram Rhoades Revels. He took the seat in 1870 and replaced Jefferson Davis.
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Which African American took the Senate seat formerly held by Confederate president Jefferson Davis?
Hiriam Revels
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What event was Jefferson Davis in?
Jefferson Davis as the president of the Confederacy was involved in the American Civil War .
What was ironic about Hiram Revels filling Jefferson Davis' senate seat after the civil war?
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War, therefore it's safe to assume that he was in favor of allowing African Americans to be owned as slaves and granted very few rights. The fact that his vacated senate seat was eventually filled by the first African American senator is ironic in that the ability to participate in the government and politics was precisely the kind of power that the racist southern whites had fought so hard to keep out of the hands of the African Americans.
Who won the Senate seat once held by Jefferson Davis?
Adelbert Ames won Jefferson Davis' Senate seat in 1870. It had remained vacant since the state of Mississippi seceded from the Union in January 1861.
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Jefferson left the senate because Mississippi seceded from the union. His final speech in the senate is at <http://www.garyrutledge.com/Documents/JeffersonDavisSpeech.htm>.
What state did Jefferson Davis represent in the US Senate before the Civil War?
== == Mississippi.
Hiram Revels?
Black Mississippi senator elected to the seat that had been occupied by Jefferson Davis when the South seceded (first African-American senator)
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Yes. During the American Civil War, Jefferson Davis was the president of the CSA.
Who took over Jefferson Davis's senate seat?
After Jefferson Davis' resignation from the U.S. Senate in September 1851, he was succeeded by Democrat John J. McRae. After Davis' withdrawal from the Senate in January 1861, his seat remained vacant until February 1870, after Mississippi was readmitted to the Union. The seat was filled at that time by Republican Adelbert Ames.
What was the opposing president for the American Civil War?
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