Hiram Rhodes Revel was born on September 27, 1827, in Fayetteville, NC. As a young man, he took lessons from a private school in which he later moved north to further his education and became a minister in 1845. During the 1850's Revel preached to free and enslaved people while assisting fugitive slaves. When the Civil War began Revel was serving as a pastor, but he soon joined the war as a Union Army Chaplin in Mississippi. In 1868, Hiram Rhodes Revel became the first African American to join Congress when he took office in the Senate. Ironically, Revel ended up taking the president of the confederacy Jefferson Davis seat. Ultimately, in March of 1871 Hiram Rhodes Revel left the senate to live out the rest of his life as an educator to others then passing away on January 6, 1901.
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