When Ira Martin Jensen was born on 8 March 1892, in Redmond, Sevier, Utah, United States, his father, Martin Jensen, was 26 and his mother, Jorgena Christine Maria Jorgensen, was 21. He married Edna Ambersine Shipp on 23 June 1915, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Redmond Election Precinct, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 13 March 1971, in Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Redmond, Sevier, Utah, 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.
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Niels, Lars, Holger, Einer, Jorgen, Bent, Knud, Per, Ove, Morten.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Jens, a shortened form of Johannes (see John ). This is the most frequent surname in Denmark. In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Jenssen . Compare Jenson 2 and Johnson .
English: variant of Jennison .
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