Item
Bibliographic Resource
Hiram Revels’ Oath of Office
- Title of the Document
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Hiram Revels’ Oath of Office
- One Line Summary
- This document is a record of Hiram Revels’s oath of office, dated February 25, 1870. He subscribes to it by signing this printed copy.
- Author
- U.S. Congress
- Date Created
- February 25, 1870
- Location
- Washington D.C.
- Type of Document
- Government Document
- Publisher
- U.S. Senate Historical Office
- Transcription
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I H. R. Revels, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement, to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution, within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. And I do further swear (or affirm) that, to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
H. R. Revels
- Provenance
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“Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi Portrait.” United States Senate Digital Archives, February 25, 1870. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/senate-stories/First-African-American-Senator.htm.