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{{Infobox Senator
| name=Blanche Kelso Bruce
| image name=Blanche Bruce - Brady-Handy.jpg
| office=[[United States Senator]]<br>from [[Mississippi]]
| party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| term_start=March 4, 1875
| term_end=March 4, 1881
| preceded=[[Henry R. Pease]]
| succeeded=[[James Z. George]]
| birth_date={{birth date|1841|3|1}}
| birth_place=[[Farmville, Virginia]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| death_date={{death date and age|1898|3|17|1841|3|1}}
| death_place=[[Washington, D.C.]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| spouse=Josephine Willson Bruce
| profession=[[politician]], [[teacher]], [[farmer]]
| religion=
| footnotes=
}}
'''Blanche Kelso Bruce''' (March 1, 1841{{spaced ndash}}March 17, 1898) was a U.S. politician who represented [[Mississippi]] as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] in the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] from 1875 to 1881 and was the first elected non-white senator to serve a full term. [[Hiram Rhodes Revels|Hiram R. Revels]], also of [[Mississippi]], was the first to ever serve in the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]], but did not serve a full term.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book |last=Graham |first=Lawrence Otis |title=The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty |year=2006 |location=New York |publisher=Harper Collins |ISBN=978-0-06-098513-4}}

==External links==
*{{CongBio|B000968}} Retrieved on 2009-03-26
*{{Find a Grave|6126453|accessdate=2009-03-26|title=Blanche Bruce}}
*[http://joe_kelso.tripod.com/lettersandhistories/bioblanchekelsobruce.htm Biography and Joe Kelso.Tripod]
*[http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110008641 Review of ''The Senator and the Socialite'']

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{{U.S. Senator box
|state=Mississippi
|class=1
|before=[[Henry R. Pease]]
|after=[[James Z. George]]
|alongside=[[James L. Alcorn]] and [[Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II)|Lucius Q. C. Lamar]]
|years=March 4, 1875 &ndash; March 4, 1881
}}
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{{Persondata
|NAME=Bruce, Blanche
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|SHORT DESCRIPTION= American politician
|DATE OF BIRTH= March 1, 1841
|PLACE OF BIRTH= [[Farmville, Virginia]]
|DATE OF DEATH= March 17, 1898
|PLACE OF DEATH= [[Washington, D.C.]]
}}
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[[Category:United States Senators from Mississippi]]
[[Category:Mississippi sheriffs]]
[[Category:American farmers]]
[[Category:Oberlin College alumni]]
[[Category:Mississippi Republicans]]
[[Category:African American United States Senators]]
[[Category:African American United States vice-presidential candidates]]
[[Category:People from Prince Edward County, Virginia]]
[[Category:People from Hannibal, Missouri]]
[[Category:People of Missouri in the American Civil War]]
[[Category:People of American Reconstruction]]
[[Category:Republican Party United States Senators]]

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