Black facts = 1874 (Feb. 3) – Blanche Kelso Bruce elected to a full six-year term in the U.S. Senate by the Mississippi legislature.
Blanche K. Bruce was born March 1, 1841 in Farmville, Virginia. In 1864, after fleeing his master, he opened a school for black children. In 1870, the Mississippi Senate elected him its sergeant-at-arms. He served as a Republican U.S. Senator for Mississippi from 1875 to 1881. He became U.S. Treasury register after he left the senate, and again in 1897. He died in Washington, D.C. on March 17, 1898.
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