Colonel Andrew Lewis

Historical marker location:

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

( Marker is on Main Street, 0 miles west of 1st Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1977

1720 - 1781.

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.