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Liberal elite, [1] also referred to as the metropolitan elite or progressive elite, [2] [3] [4] is a term used to describe politically liberal people whose education has traditionally opened the doors to affluence, wealth and power and who form a managerial elite.
Cassius Marcellus Clay was born on October 19, 1810, in Madison County, Kentucky, to Sally Lewis and Green Clay, one of the wealthiest planters and slave owners in Kentucky, who became a prominent politician. He was one of six children who survived to adulthood, of seven born.
Section 25 of the Kentucky Constitution reads: “Slavery and involuntary servitude in this state are forbidden, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”
It does not apply to Kentucky, which had not joined the Confederacy. April 1863: Camp Nelson is established as a U.S. Army depot logistics center for the Western Theater of the Civil War.
James Gillespie Birney (February 4, 1792 – November 18, 1857) [2] was an American abolitionist, politician, and attorney born in Danville, Kentucky.He changed from being a planter and slave owner to abolitionism, publishing the abolitionist weekly The Philanthropist.
In researching the genealogies of America’s political elite, a Reuters examination found that a fifth of the nation’s congressmen, living presidents, Supreme Court justices and governors are ...
Starting in 2000, liberals have called for state recognition of gay marriage and anti-discrimination laws that for homosexuals. [57] In 2009, crimes motivated by prejudice to sexual orientation became recognized as federal hate crimes. Gay marriage was legalized in the United States following the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v.
Pension record for Lewis Robards' widow Hannah Winn Robards. Lewis Robards (December 5, 1758 – April 15, 1814) was an American Revolutionary War veteran and Kentucky pioneer who is best remembered as the first husband of Rachel Jackson, who was later married to Andrew Jackson, elected U.S. president in 1828.