Blanche K. Bruce is known for being which of the following?
A. He was the founder of the Exoduster movement.
B. He was the first black governor of a northern state.
C. He was the first black man to serve as a governor in a former
Confederate state.
D. He was the only former slave to serve in the U.S. Senate.

Blanche K. Bruce was a former slave, who turned freedman after the Civil War. He was one of the 2000 African Americans appointed to governmental offices during Reconstruction. He was the first appointed to serve in the US Senate.

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Blanche Bruce was born as a slave in Prince Edward County in Virginia in 1848.

His father was a white man and owned a plantation in Virginia and his mother was a household slave.

Bruce was the first African American senator who served a full term.

After the Civil War, he moved to Mississippi and served as the supervisor of elections and by the 1870's he emerged as a figure in state politics. He also served as the sergeant at arms in the state senate and later became country assessor, sheriff.

After working at these positions he amassed wealth and purchased a plantation in Floresville in Mississippi.

In 1874, he was elected by the Mississippi state legislature to a seat in the Senate, at that time the Mississippi legislature was dominated by Republicans.

During his tenure as a Senator, he opposed the exclusion of Chinese immigrants and advocated just treatment for Indians and blacks.

So, D. He was the only former Slave to serve in the United States Senate is the correct answer.

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