When Noah Ernest Shackelford was born on 30 September 1892, in Jefferson, Tennessee, United States, his father, George David Shackelford, was 35 and his mother, Martha Ellen Hickman, was 30. He married Jennie Betty Davis in Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1935 and Magisterial District 6, Kenton, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 6 December 1973, in Decatur, Meigs, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Decatur Cemetery, Decatur, Meigs, Tennessee, 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.
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
English: habitational name from Shackleford in Godalming or Shackleford in Woking (both Surrey). The placename may derive from Old English sceacol ‘shackle’ or an element related to dialect shackle ‘loose’ (derived from sceacan ‘to shake’) + ford ‘ford’. This surname is now rare in Britain.
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