When George Washington Wimpee was born on 23 September 1869, in Rome, Floyd, Georgia, United States, his father, John Newton Wimpee, was 44 and his mother, Emily J. Griffith, was 29. He married Sarah Frances Echols on 17 November 1896, in Polk, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in District 1501, Walker, Georgia, United States for about 10 years and Walker, San Remigio, Antique, Philippines in 1961. He died on 3 October 1961, in Walker, Georgia, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Floyd, Georgia, 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.
The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
English: variant of Wimpey .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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