Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1870 and 1871, and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative ... Change in Senate composition · By March 30, 1870

The 1870 United States elections occurred in the middle of Republican President Ulysses S. Grant's first term, during the Third Party System.

On February 25, 1870, Hiram R. Revels, Republican of Mississippi, was sworn in as the first African American member of the US Senate and the first ever to ...

After the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prevented anyone who had served the Confederacy from holding a seat in Congress.

The 14th Amendment making African Americans citizens, had only passed two years earlier. Revels was finally seated and represented Mississippi in 1870 and 1871, ...

The election of 1870 came as a total shock to both the Republican and Conservative Parties. The Conservatives had won the election by vast odds.

On January 20, 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels was elected to the US Senate, becoming the first African American to serve in the US Congress.

On Oct. 19, 1870 the first African Americans were elected to the House of Representatives. Black Republicans won three of the four congressional seats in South ...

The 1870 elections were a test. Would the rule of law or intimidation and fear win out as Black Americans attempted to exercise their new rights?

In 1881, with the Senate divided between 37 Republicans and 37 Democrats (along with two independents), Vice President Chester Arthur's tie-breaking vote ...