Ẹ wo àmì-ọ̀rọ̀ fún Blanche Bruce

{{Infobox Senator 
| name=Blanche Kelso Bruce
| image name=Blanche Bruce - Brady-Handy.jpg
| office=[[United States Senator|Alagba Asofin U.S.]]<br>lati [[Mississippi]]
| party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republikani]] 
| term_start=March 4, 1875 
| term_end=March 3, 1881
| preceded=[[Henry R. Pease]]
| succeeded=[[James Z. George]]
| date of birth={{birth date|1841|3|1|df=y}}
| place of birth=[[Farmville, Virginia]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| date of death={{death date and age|1898|3|17|1841|3|1|df=y}}
| place of death=[[Washington, D.C.]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| spouse=Josephine Willson Bruce
| profession=[[politician|olóṣèlú]], [[teacher|olùkọ́]], [[farmer|àgbẹ̀]]
| religion=
| footnotes=
}}
'''Blanche Kelso Bruce''' (1 Oṣù Kẹta, 1841 &ndash; 17 Oṣù Kẹta, 1898) je oloselu ara [[USA|U.S]] to soju fun ipinle [[Mississippi]] gege bi [[Republican Party (United States)|Republikani]] ni [[United States Senate|Ile Alagba Asofin U.S]] lati 1875 de 1881 beesini ohun ni alagba asofin omo [[African American|Afrika Amerika]] akoko to soju igba re tan. [[Hiram Rhodes Revels|Hiram R. Revels]], to wa bakanna lati [[Mississippi]], ni omo Afrika Amerika to soju ni [[United States Congress|Kongresi U.S.]], sugbon ko soju igba re tan. 

==Igbesiaye==
Bruce je bibi ni [[Prince Edward County, Virginia|Prince Edward County]], [[Virginia]] nitosi [[Farmville, Virginia|Farmville]] fun Pettis Perkinson, to je [[whites|alawofunfun]] to ni [[plantation|oko ogbin]] ni  Virginia, ati fun [[slavery|eru]] ile omo Afrika Amerika toruko re unje Polly Bruce. Itoju latowo baba re fi bee dara ti a ba fi we tawon miran. O fun leko po mo awon omo yioku re. Nigba ti Blanche Bruce je odo, o le sere pelu arakunrin obakan re. O je bibi si oko eru nitori ipo iya re, fun idi eyi baba re danidekun lona abofinmu, o si seto fun lati lo kose kan.<ref name="Politico">{{cite news | first=Andrew |last=Glass |work=[[The Politico]] |title=Freed slave presides over Senate: February 14, 1879 |date=February 14, 2008 |url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8508.html }}</ref> 
[[Image:BKBruce-house WashingtonDC.jpg|thumb|left|175px|[[Blanche K. Bruce House|Ile Bruce]] ni 909 M Street NW ni [[Washington, D.C.]] di [[National Historic Landmark]] ni 1975]]
Ni 1850, Bruce ko lo si [[Missouri]] leyin igba to di [[apprentice|omo ise]] fun atewe kan. Leyin igba ti [[Union Army]] ko iwe-itoro re lati jagun ninu [[American Civil War|Ogun Abele]], Bruce di oluko nile-eko, o si lo si [[Oberlin College|Koleji Oberlin]] ni [[Ohio]] fun odun meji. Leyin na o lo sise bi asona lori oko-ojuomi lori [[Mississippi River|Odo Mississippi]]. Ni 1864, o ko lo si [[Hannibal, Missouri]], nibi to da ile-eko sile fun awon alawodudu.

Niigba [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Atunleko]], Bruce di oloro nitori awon ile to ni [[Mississippi Delta|Delta Mississippi]].  O je yiyansipo akorukosile awon adibo ati adye owoode fun [[Tallahatchie County, Mississippi|Tallahatchie County]] koto di pe o bori ninu idiboyan fun [[sheriff]] ni [[Bolivar County, Mississippi|Bolivar County]]. Leyin eyi o tun je yiyansipo si awon ipo miran nibe bi, agbwoode ati olubojuto eto eko, nigba kanna to tun se olotu [[newspaper|iwe-iroyin]] labele. Ni Osu Keji odun 1874, Bruce je didiboyan latowo ile asofin ipnle Mississippi si Ile Alagba Asofin bi [[Republican Party (United States)|Republikani]]. Ni ojo 14 Osu Keji odun 1879, Bruce solori ipade Ile Alagba U.S., nipa be o di omo Afrika Amerika akoko (ati nikan to je eru tele) to bo sipo yi<ref name="Politico" />. Ni 1880, [[James Z. George]] je didiboyan lati ropo Bruce.

Ni Ipejo Onibinibi awon Republikani odun 1880 ni [[Chicago]], Bruce do omo Afrika Amerika akoko to gba ibo kankan ni ipejo idaruko fun ipo ti egbe oloselu ninla kan nipa gbigba ibo mejo fun ipo igbakeji aare. Ni 1881, Bruce je yiyasipo latowo [[President of the United States|Aare]] [[James Garfield|James A. Garfield]] lati di Olukosile Eto Inawo (''Register of the Treasury''), eyi tun so Bruce di omo Afrika Amerika akoko ti itowobowe re wa lori owonina orile-ede Amerika.<ref>{{cite book |last=Turkel |first=Stanley |title=Heroes of the American Reconstruction: Profiles of Sixteen Educators, Politicians and Activists |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=cPzVqTea6JgC&printsec=frontcover#PPA7-IA5,M1 |year=2005 |publisher=McFarland & Company|location=Jefferson, NC |isbn=0-786-41943-1 |page=6 |quote=Senator Bruce was also the first African-American to preside over the Senate and the first African-American whose signature appeared on all the nation's paper currency (as Register of the Treasury starting on May 18, 1881)}}</ref>  Bruce sise bi olukosile isele ni [[District of Columbia|Ipinleagbegbe Kolumbia]] ni 1891–93, ati bakanna bi akorukosile ile akapo titi di igba to ku ni 1898.

Ni ojo 24 Osu Kefa odun 1878, Bruce gbe Josephine Beal Willson (1853–February 15, 1923) lati Cleveland, Ohio niyawo; oko ati iyawo rinajo lo si Europe fun osu merin fun ajo oloyin.  Won bi omo won kan soso, Roscoe Conkling Bruce ni 1879. Won so loruko fun Alagba Asofin lati New York [[Roscoe Conkling]], to je olufarawe fun Bruce ni Ile Alagba. Ni 2002, omowe [[Molefi Kete Asante]] fi oruko Blanche Bruce si inu akojo [[100 Greatest African Americans|Awon omo Afrika Amerika 100 Olokikijulo]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Asante |first=Molefi Kete |year=2002 |title=100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia |location=Amherst, New York
|publisher=Prometheus Books |ISBN= 1-57392-963-8}}</ref>

==E tun wo==
*[[List of African-American firsts|Akojo awon ohun akoko awon omo Afrika Amerika]]

==Itokasi==
{{Reflist}}

==Iwe kika==
*{{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=978-0060985134}}

==Awon ijapo ode==
*{{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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