When John H. Morgan Sivly was born in 1870, in Blount, Alabama, United States, his father, James C Sivley, was 38 and his mother, Arrena Stuart, was 35. He married Margarett Neel on 14 July 1894, in Blount, Alabama, United States. He died in 1910, at the age of 40.
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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.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Americanized form of German Sifferle (see Siverly ).
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