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.

Thomas E. Noell

Quill platform ID: p8309.

"(April 3, 1839 -- October 3, 1867) Thomas Estes Noell was a lawyer, soldier, military commissioner, and American politician. Noell was born in Perryville, Perry County, Missouri. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He was appointed, during the Civil War, as a military commissioner (1861), served as a major in the State militia (July 1861 - April 1862), appointed captain unassigned in Company C 19th infantry of the United States Army from April 1, 1862 to February 20,1865 when he resigned to take his seat in Congress. He was elected as a Republican to the 39th Congress, was reelected as a Democrat to the 40th Congress, and served from March 4, 1865 until his death in 1867. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=N000123]"

Member of Missouri Delegation—United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866, Missouri Delegation—United States Fifteenth Amendment.

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