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The first colored senator and representatives: In the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States

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Group portrait depicting Senator Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi, and Congressmen Robert C. De Large of South Carolina, Jefferson H. Long of Georgia, Benjamin S. Turner of Alabama, Josiah T. Walls of Florida, Joseph H. Rainy [sic] of South Carolina, and R. Brown Elliot of South Carolina. All of the legislators are seated, except DeLarge and Long who stand.

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Keywords

  1. African American Legislators
  2. African Americans
  3. De Large, Robert Carlos, 1842 1874
  4. Elliott, Robert Brown, 1842 1884
  5. Group Portraits
  6. Lithographs
  7. Long, Jefferson Franklin, 1836 1900
  8. Rainey, Joseph H. (Joseph Hayne), 1832 1887
  9. Revels, Hiram Rhoades, 1827? 1901
  10. Turner, Benjamin S., 1825 1894
  11. United States
  12. Walls, Josiah T., 1842 1905

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