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March 16, 1810 – Supreme Court Decides Fletcher v. Peck, Expanding Parameters...
The state of Georgia claimed sovereignty over a large tract of land (some 35-40 million acres) known as “Yazoo,” most of which was occupied by native tribes (but far be it from white settlers to...
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March 21, 1861 – Confederacy VP Alexander Stephens Declares Slavery as “the...
On this day in history the recently elected vice president of the Confederacy spoke about the “Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America,” adopted on March 11. He emphasized: “The new...
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March 23, 1801 – Jefferson on the Need for the Clergy to Defer to Science
In early March of 1801, Jefferson received a letter from Moses Robinson, a prominent Vermont politician and supporter of Jefferson. Robinson congratulated Jefferson on winning the presidency. He...
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March 28, 1787 – Birth of Theodore Frelinghuysen, American Politician & Whig...
Theodore Frelinghuysen was an American politician who represented New Jersey in the US Senate. He was the Whig vice presidential nominee in the election of 1844, running on a ticket with Henry Clay. He...
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March 30, 1870 – 15th Amendment Adopted
Together, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are referred to as the Reconstruction Amendments, as they were passed after the US Civil War during the Reconstruction Era that followed. The 13th...
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April 5, 1856 – Birth of Booker T. Washington, “The Great Accommodator”
Booker T. Washington was born on April 5, 1856 near Hale’s Ford, Virginia on a tobacco plantation. He was born into slavery to Jane, an enslaved Black woman impregnated by a white man. He, his...
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April 10, 1869 – Congress Increased Number of Supreme Court Justices to Nine
Per the Constitution Annotated site compiled by the Library of Congress: Congress first enacted legislation to structure the Supreme Court in the Judiciary Act of 1789. Under the 1789 act, the Court...
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April 15, 1930 – Birth of Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, 1st Democratically Elected...
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, inaugurated as president of Iceland on August 1, 1980, was the first woman to be democratically elected president in any nation. She served for 16 years, also making her the...
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April 19, 1832 – Birth of Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Who Became First Lady of...
Lucretia Rudolph was born on this day in Garrettsville, Ohio. She met her future husband, James Garfield, in 1849 at Geauga Seminary, a Free Will Baptist school in Chester Township, Geauga County,...
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April 22, 1793 – George Washington Issues Proclamation of Neutrality
King Louis XVI of France was beheaded in January of 1793. Ten days later, France, already fighting Austria and Prussia, declared war on England, Holland, and Spain. Having helped America in her war of...
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