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Jennifer Lee Brunner (born February 5, 1957) [citation needed] is an American attorney, politician, and judge. She is currently an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, a position to which she was elected after serving as a judge on the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals.
The goal was to make women free to tend to their husband's needs inside their household. [171] Uruguay: Abortion was made illegal in Uruguay in 1938. 1939. Sweden: Ban against firing a woman for marrying or having children. [5] France: The French Penal Code was altered to permit an abortion that would save the pregnant woman's life. [172]
In classical scholarship, the editio princeps (plural: editiones principes) of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in inscriptions or manuscripts, which could be circulated only after being copied by hand.
Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician who was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina.During the American Civil War, the still enslaved Smalls commandeered a Confederate transport ship in Charleston Harbor and sailed it from the Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.S. blockade that surrounded it. [1]
John William Conway (born July 5, 1969) is an American lawyer and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky.A member of the Democratic Party, Conway served as the 49th attorney general of Kentucky from January 7, 2008, to January 4, 2016. [1]
Former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st Vice President of the United States shortly after the U.S. House of Representatives voted, 287 to 128, to approve his nomination to fill the position that had been vacant since U.S. President Gerald Ford had taken office on August 9. The House action followed the 90 to 7 vote ...
The U.S. Senate unanimously (72–0) approved the proposed Twenty-fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for appointment and confirmation to fill any vacancy in the office of Vice President of the United States, as well as allowing the Vice President to serve as Acting President if the incumbent was "unable to discharge the powers ...