In Nashville, the Tennessee state house voted to follow the state's upper house the previous day and to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. On a vote of forty-three to eleven, the state became the first former Confederate state to accept the measure and the third overall, after New Hampshire and Connecticut. (By John Osborne)
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Edward McPherson (ed.), The Political History of the United States During the Period of Reconstruction (From April 15, 1865 to July 15, 1870) .... (Washington D.C.: Solomons and Chapman, 1875), 194.
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