When William Edward Capps was born on 10 January 1868, in Princess Anne, Virginia, United States, his father, Ira Virginius Capps, was 22 and his mother, Sarah Frances Fisher, was 19. He married Mary "Molly" Elizabeth Henley on 25 January 1893, in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Pungo, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States in 1880 and Norfolk, Norfolk County, Virginia, United States in 1900. He died on 30 September 1902, in Norfolk, Virginia, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia, United States.
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Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English: variant of Capp with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Americanized form of German Kapps .
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