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American lawyer, banker, and politician (1853-1921)
The Sixteenth Amendment required ratification by three‑quarters of the states — 36 of the 48 then in the Union — and that threshold was reached in early February 1913 when the 36th state ratified; Sec...
, proposed by in 1909, was ratified by the legislatures of thirty-six states between 1909 and early 1913 and was proclaimed part of the Constitution in February 1913 . The official documentary record ...
The ’s formal ratification process reached the requisite three-fourths threshold in early February 1913, and later certified the amendment that month; several state legislatures continued to record th...
’s February 25, 1913 proclamation that the had been ratified rested not on a single parchment but on ’s file of “official documents” — the ratification resolutions sent by — a record Knox explicitly c...
The Sixteenth Amendment was proposed by Congress in mid‑1909 and reached the constitutional threshold of three‑quarters of state legislatures in early February 1913, with certifying proclamations foll...