Blanche Bruce
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Bruce was born into slavery in Virginia, but traveled to Ohio at the start
of the Civil War where he attended Oberlin College. He became a farmer
in Mississippi and acquired great wealth and property. He represented
Mississippi as a Republican U.S. Senator from 1875 to 1881 and was the
first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate. When his
term was over in 1881, Bruce was appointed by President James Garfield
to the office of Register of the Treasury. As such, Bruce was the first
African-American to be represented on U.S. currency.
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