When Samuel Telford Wiggins was born on 2 December 1869, in Armstrong Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James Wilson Wiggins, was 27 and his mother, Catharine Ann McCollum, was 32. He married Lillian Eugertie Lahman in 1907, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Sheridan, Sheridan, Kansas, United States in 1920 and Selden, Sheridan, Kansas, United States for about 20 years. He died on 15 June 1953, at the age of 83, and was buried in Selden, Sheridan, Kansas, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1876: Sheridan, Kansas, United States
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Wiggin with the addition of genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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