When James Madison Camper was born on 9 June 1868, in Rockbridge, Virginia, United States, his father, William Henry Camper, was 26 and his mother, Sarah Margaret Jane Huffman, was 27. He married Sarah Wright Stinnett on 7 February 1889, in Amherst, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Buchanan, Botetourt, Virginia, United States in 1950. He died on 3 March 1955, in Fairfield, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Springwood, Botetourt, Virginia, United States.
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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.
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.
On May 30, 18944 the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument was unveiled. It is 73 feet high and over looks Libby Hill Park. the statue represents the 13 Confederate States.
Altered form of German Kamper or Kämpfer (see Kampfer ). The surname Camper is recorded in England, in the London and Essex area, in the 19th century; its origin is uncertain, but it may have been taken there from continental Europe.
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