When John Virgil Dabbs was born on 29 August 1893, in Adamsville, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, his father, William A Dabbs, was 36 and his mother, Margaret Melissa Morrow, was 30. He married Marion Chaffee in 1917, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Burlington, Alamance, North Carolina, United States in 1930 and Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 25 October 1971, at the age of 78, and was buried in Santa Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 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.
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
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: variant of Dabb , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Dobbs .
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