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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: 1866-01-17 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 5478: 1866-01-17 12:00:00

John N. Goodwin enters the House; H. Res. 43 is proposed and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary; Mr. Grider submits resolutions to be referred to the Joint Committee on Reconstruction; the House continues to consider H. R. 1

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Credentials of John N. Goodwin

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THE GOVERNOR OF THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,

To all whom these presents come, greeting:

Whereas the assistant secretary of the Territory of Arizona, on the 2nd day of October, A. D. 1865, has certified to me that returns have been received of the election held on the first Wednesday of September, A. D. 1865, for Delegate in Congress from this Territory for the term commencing March 4, 1865, from all the counties in said Territory, and that John N. Goodwin, in said Territory, has the largest number of votes: Therefore,

I hereby declare John N. Goodwin to be duly and legally elected Delegate in Congress from the Territory of Arizona for the term aforesaid.

[L. S.] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the Territory of Arizona. Done at Prescott, this 30th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1865.

RICHARD C. McCORMICK, Acting Governor.

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