When Walter Richards was born on 17 April 1894, in Bullionville, Lincoln, Nevada, United States, his father, Peter Adolphus Richard, was 41 and his mother, Mary Frances Thornton, was 17. He married Lottie Ellen Twitchell on 17 July 1915, in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Joseph, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1900 and Minersville, Beaver, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 8 March 1924, in Carbon, Utah, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Minersville Cemetery, Minersville, Beaver, Utah, United States.
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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.
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
English: variant of Richard , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Rickards .
German: patronymic from the personal name Richard .
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