In Nashville, the Tennessee state senate votes fifteen to six to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.

In Nashville, the Tennessee state senate voted with a ballot of fifteen "yeas" and six "nays" to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.  The lower house followed the next day on a vote of forty-three to eleven and the state became the first former Confederate state to accept the measure and the third overall, after New Hampshire and Connecticut. (By John Osborne)