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In the United States Senate election of 1870 the Republican Party lost six seats in the United States Senate though it still retained an overwhelming majority.As this election was prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment Senators were chosen or elected by State legislatures.That election marked the first time that with Mississippian Hiram Rhodes Revels an African American was elected as a US senator and became a member of Congress.In Georgia Foster Blodgett was elected and presented his credentials as Senator-elect but the Senate declared him not elected.