When Caleb Jenkins Dorsey was born on 15 June 1868, in Bruce, Nicholas, West Virginia, United States, his father, Cornelius Christopher Dorsey, was 39 and his mother, Rachael Pitsenbarger, was 40. He married Elizabeth Jane Nutter on 6 April 1892, in Nicholas, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Wilderness District, Nicholas, West Virginia, United States for about 30 years. He died on 24 June 1935, in Lansing, Fayette, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Spruce Grove Methodist Cemetery, Mount Nebo, Nicholas, West Virginia, 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.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English (East Yorkshire): of French origin, a habitational name, with French preposition d(e), from Orsay in Seine-et-Orne, France, or from Orçay in Loire-et-Cher, recorded in the 13th century as Orceiacum, from the Latin personal name Orcius + the locative suffix -acum.
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