When Alta Allie Beatrice Gandy was born on 10 February 1894, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Charles Saxton Gandy, was 35 and her mother, Sara Ida Patrick, was 35. She had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Daniel Jackson Dodd. She lived in Shelby, Tennessee, United States in 1930 and Civil District 2, Shelby, Tennessee, United States in 1940. She died on 7 December 1971, in Ellendale, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 77.
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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:
possibly a nickname from Old French gandie ‘pretence, trick, trickery’.
alternatively, perhaps from a shortened form of the Old French personal name Gandin, a pet form of ancient Germanic names beginning with Wand- ‘turn, wind’ or more likely Gand- (of uncertain etymology). In Cheshire, Middle English variation between Gond- and Gand- is probably due to dialect rounding of original -a- before -n(d)-. In south England, however, the variation is difficult to explain (see 3 below).
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