When Thomas J. Coffey was born on 6 April 1865, in Townsend, Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, John Morris Coffey, was 33 and his mother, Mary Ann Sheehan, was 29. He lived in Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 60 years. He died in 1945, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 80.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Irish:
shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cathbhadha ‘descendant of Cathbhadh’, a byname meaning ‘battle tent’, Ó Cathbhuadhaigh ‘descendant of Cathbhuadhach’ (‘battle victorious’), or Ó Cathmhogha ‘descendant of Cathmhugh’ (‘battle slave’).
shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cobhthaigh ‘descendant of Cobhthach’, a byname meaning ‘victorious’.
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