[SmartInsight]

Too easy in this day and age of Google:

Hiram Revels

Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator in 1870. Born in North Carolina in 1827, Revels attended Knox College in Illinois and later served as minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland. He raised two black regiments during the Civil War and fought at the battle of Vicksburg in Mississippi. The Mississippi state legislature sent him to the U.S. Senate during Reconstruction where he became an outspoken opponent of racial segregation. Although Revels served in the Senate for just a year, he broke new ground for African Americans in Congress. (Photo: Library of Congress)

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/h_multi_sections_and_teasers/Photo_Exhibit_African_American_Senators.htm

[HamiltonJay]

Forget his name, but if memory serves it was a Republican elected during reconstruction.

[tallyhoe]

Hiram Revels (R-MS)

[DBrow]

Who was the first black senator to be elected by popular vote?

[kbennkc]

Who was the first black American Senator to wish he had never heard of that blabber mouth Barbara Walters ?

[Walkingfeather]

must be someone that is from africa but not black.

[NYCslicker]

Tony Rand

[LukeL]

Well I checked and no senator has ever been born in Africa, many in the Caribbean and Europe but 0 on the African continent.

[Bhoy]

Ping

[unkus]

ping for tomorrow

[dangus]

Here’s a weird hint people: Think of the most prominent ancient Christian saints. Can you name an African saint? No, that has nothing to do with his name, and he’s linked to such a saint only by a minor coincidence which has nothing to do with why I’m asking you all to think of such a saint.

[ArmyTeach]

Do a Google for Blanche Kelso Bruce ...

BTW, you knew that blanche is French for ‘white.’

[Charles Henrickson]

David Levy Yulee of Florida.

[LukeL]

Charles Cathcart. He was born on an Island which is technically part of Africa even though it is a possession of Portugal.

[kbennkc]

An American became an African Senator when Liberia became a Republic . I don't have his name ,but I think he is shown here with his son Lamont .

[Grizzled Bear]

Self Ping for tomorrow!

[FormerACLUmember]

Liberal torture question: Who is the only President who was a Labor Leader? He was the President of his union.

(Ronald Reagan)

[gunsequalfreedom]

That’s easy. Hiram Revels (R-MS).

Sure glad they provide the answers in the back of the book.

[TnGOP]

Good one.

While we're asking these questions, here is my favorite: Which American President was the last to serve as president at a time when there were no living former Presidents?

[JLS]

I guess Charles William Cathcart:

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000250

This is a bit of a reach though I guess Maderia and the Funchal Islands geologically might be African?