Daniel Bedinger

Historical marker location:

104 N Church St, Shepherdstown, West Virginia

( Memorial is on North Church Street (County Road 480/1) just south of West High Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1988

The first African American to serve as a member of the United States Senate was Hiram Rhodes Revels, who was born in Fayetteville, West Virginia, in 1827.