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John Armor Bingham
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States," which included former slaves recently freed. In addition, it prohibited states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or denying "any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Serving on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Ohio Representative John Armor Bingham was the sponsor and principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment. |