When James A. Garner was born on 22 August 1894, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States, his father, William C Garner, was 34 and his mother, Phoebe Jane Bailey, was 26. He had at least 5 sons and 2 daughters with Rebecca E Jones. He lived in Jellico, Campbell, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and Civil District 5, Campbell, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 24 June 1974, in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States, at the age of 79.
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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.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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 (of Norman origin): perhaps occasionally from the Old French personal name Garnier (see Garnier ), but it is exeptionally rare as a personal name in medieval England and no certain evidence has been found for its use as a surname. Compare Warner .
English: from Middle English gern(i)er, garner, gurner, Anglo-Norman French gerner ‘granary’ (Old French grenier, from Late Latin granarium, a derivative of granum ‘grain’). It was probably a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of the stores kept in a granary.
English and Scottish: commonly shortened form of Gardner .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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