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John Adams Hyman was born in Warren County, North Carolina, on July 23, 1840. He died in Washington, D.C., on September 14, 1891.A former slave, Hyman became the first African American elected to Congress from North Carolina’s Second District in 1874, and served one term in the U.S. House as a Republican (1875–1877).
A member of the State Equal Rights Convention of 1865, Hyman quickly became active in Republican politics in North Carolina. He was a delegate to the March 1867 Republican State Convention, later serving as registrar for northern Warren County, recruiting emancipated blacks as voters. He was elected as a member of the state’s constitutional convention of 1868, which granted freed slaves the right to vote and hold office. In the first election held later that year under that new constitution, Hyman was elected to the first of three terms in the N.C. Senate from the 20th District (Warren County), among a handful of black Republicans in the state’s upper legislative body.
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