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.

Samuel L. Warner

Quill platform ID: p8181.

"(June 14, 1828 -- February 6, 1893) Samuel Larkin Warner was a lawyer and an American politician. He was born in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut. He graduated from the law department of Harvard University (1854) and was admitted to the bar in 1854. He was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1858 and was the Mayor of Middletown from 1862-1866. He was also a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864, 1888, and 1892. Larkin was elected as a Republican to the 39th Congress from March 4, 1865 to March 3, 1867, was not reelected. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1174 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=W000157]"

Member of Connecticut Delegation—United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866.

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