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  • Hiram Revels first African-American in Congress

    Hiram Revels becomes the first African-American in Congress after he is elected to represent Mississippi in the Senate by the Mississippi state legislature. Revels, born a free man in North Carolina, was an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, served as a chaplain to Union soldiers during the Civil War, and helped recruit Union soldiers in Maryland and Missouri. 

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  • John F. Dulles born

    American diplomat John Foster Dulles is born in Washington, D.C. Dulles, an attorney by trade, represented the United States at both the Versailles Conference after World War I and the San Francisco Conference, where the United Nations Charter was established. Dulles is best known for serving as Secretary of State under President Eisenhower, as he redefined American Cold War policy.

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