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Hiram Abif. Hiram is the name of the slain builder from the third degree of the craft lodge system. While his biblical counterpart returned to his native Tyre, his death is only allegorical in Masonry. Sadly many Freemasons are unaware of this.
Mississippi sent the first two (and only) black senators of this period to Congress. The first senator, Hiram R. Revels (1827-1901), was a free black from North Carolina who served as a chaplain to black troops during the Civil War. Revels moved to Natchez in 1866 and founded schools for freedmen throughout the South.