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Who was Blanche Bruce?
a leader and founding member of the Ku Klux Klan
a presidential candidate from the Republican Party
the first African American politician to serve in Congress
the founder of the first school for African American children

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None of the above.

Blanche K. Bruce (1841–1898) was an African American Republican politician from Mississippi who served in the U.S. Senate from 1875 to 1881. He was the first Black U.S. senator to serve a full six-year term (Hiram Revels was the first Black senator overall, but served only a partial term). Bruce had been born into slavery, became a teacher and landowner, and later held several federal appointments after his Senate service.