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  1. Overview: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
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  3. Committee:The House of Representatives
  4. Session: 1865-12-12 12:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866

An amendment to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal rights, both civil and legal, to Black Americans, including those who had been emancipated by the thirteenth amendment.

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The House of Representatives of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress

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Session 5102: 1865-12-12 12:00:00

Credentials from those claiming seats in Tennessee are referred to the Joint Committee on Reconstruction

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State of Tennessee, Executive Department, Nashville, November 13, 1865.

To all who shall see these presents, greeting:

I, William G. Brownlow, Governor of the State of Tennessee, do hereby certify that, at a general election, opened and held in said State, on the first Thursday in August, A. D. 1865, for the purpose of electing Representatives of the State of Tennessee in the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States, Horace Maynard, of the county of Knox, was regularly elected, in accordance with the laws of the State of Tennessee and of the United States, Representative in said Congress from the second congressional district, composed of the counties of Claiborne, Union, Knox, Campbell, Scott, Morgan, Anderson, Blount, Monroe, Polk, McMinn, Bradley, and Roane.

And I do therefore commission the said Horace Maynard Representative in Congress as aforesaid, during the term, and with all the powers, privileges, and emoluments appertaining.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the great seal of the State of Tennessee to be affixed, at the department in the city of Nashville, this 13th day of November, 1865.

W. G. BROWNLOW. [L. S.]

By the Governor:

A. J. Fletcher, Secretary of State.

[Editors' note: This text is incomplete, as it is only the credentials of Horace Maynard; the other Tennessee credentials are "precisely similar in form".]

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