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.
Quill platform ID: p8260.
"(December 29, 1819 -- April 1, 1887) Nathaniel Green Taylor was a(n) lawyer, public servant, member of a relief association, commissioner of Indian Affairs, preacher, and American politician. Nathaniel was born in Happy Valley, Carter County, Tennessee. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He was a presidential elector on the Constitutional Union ticket of Bell and Everett in 1860, member of the relief association formed for the aid of war sufferers in East Tennessee, and was a Commissioner of Indian Affairs (March 26, 1867 - April 21, 1869). Taylor was elected as a Whig to the 33rd Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Brookins Campbell (March 30, 1854) and as a Unionist to the 39th Congress (July 24, 1866 - March 3, 1867). He was not reelected in 1854 and 1866. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=T000095]"
Member of Tennessee Delegation—United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866.
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