When Sam Leslie Murley was born on 7 May 1894, in Monroe, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Hayden Murley, was 45 and his mother, Mary Temple Page, was 38. He married Vallie Mae Roddy on 2 January 1921, in Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Trousdale, Tennessee, United States for about 5 years and Civil District 1, Trousdale, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 26 November 1976, in Gallatin, Sumner, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Dixon Springs, Smith, 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.
Irish (Cork and Kerry): variant of Morley .
English (Cornwall and Somerset): habitational name from Murley in Uplowman (Devon). The placename derives from Old English mōr ‘moor’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. There may well have been some confusion with Morley .
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