Brief Life History of Ira
When Ira Sanford was born on 17 October 1869, in Carroll, Missouri, United States, his father, Velorous Sanford, was 36 and his mother, Minerva Carolina Dale, was 22. He married Evelyn Grace Hitchcock on 15 October 1901, in Alameda, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in San Andreas, Calaveras, California, United States in 1920 and Albany, Alameda, California, United States for about 20 years. He died on 14 March 1961, in El Cerrito, Contra Costa, California, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Kensington, Contra Costa, California, United States.
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- Ira Sanford, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ira Sanford, "BillionGraves Index"
- Ira Sanford, "California Great Registers, 1866-1910"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
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English (Devon): variant of Sandford .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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