When Lafayette R. Clinton was born on 7 September 1865, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Fielding Jeter Clinton, was 52 and his mother, Melissa Diantha Clinton, was 39. He married Esther Jackson in February 1887. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Bellingham, Whatcom, Washington, United States in 1910. He died on 8 November 1945, in Granite Falls, Snohomish, Washington, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Seattle, King, Washington, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Irish (Louth, Westmeath) and Scottish: shortened form of McClinton .
English: habitational name, either from Glympton in Oxfordshire, named as ‘settlement (Old English tūn) on the Glym river’, a Celtic river name meaning ‘bright stream’, or from Glinton in Northamptonshire, early recorded as Clinton (named with an unrecorded Old English element akin to Middle Low German glinde ‘enclosure, fence’ + Old English tūn). The surname was taken to Ireland in or before the 16th century.
History: Charles Clinton (born 1690 in Longford, Ireland) organized a group of colonists and founded the settlement of Little Britain, Ulster County, NY, in 1731. His son George Clinton (1739–1812) was governor of NY (1777–95), and they had many prominent descendants. — An English aristocratic family called Clinton was founded by Geoffrey de Clinton (flourished 1130), who held lands at Glympton, Oxfordshire. He was chamberlain and treasurer to Henry I (1100–35).
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