When Clarence Lorenzo Shelton was born on 13 February 1893, in Golden, Wood, Texas, United States, his father, Adolphus Monroe Shelton, was 26 and his mother, Panola Lee Teddlie, was 19. He married Ethel Mae Palmer on 14 February 1914, in Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Gila, Arizona, United States in 1950. He died on 19 May 1986, in Smith, Texas, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Hopewell Cemetery, Swan, Smith, Texas, United States.
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Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
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.
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
English (Nottinghamshire): habitational name primarily from Shelton (Nottinghamshire), but also from Shelton (Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, and Staffordshire). The placenames all derive from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
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