When Joseph Taylor Shears was born on 27 August 1868, in Milford Township, Butler, Ohio, United States, his father, James Shears, was 44 and his mother, Catharine Marshall, was 38. He married Nelle Brock on 6 June 1901, in Butler, Ohio, United States. He died on 19 November 1936, in Hamilton, Butler, Ohio, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Darrtown, Milford Township, Butler, Ohio, 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.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: variant of Shear or Shire , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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