Albert Levitt (1887–1968) was an American attorney and official who ran for office many times, receiving only a small percentage of the vote. He attended Harvard Law School, and helped draft the Equal Rights Amendment. After serving as a law professor, he settled in Connecticut with his first wife, the suffragist Elsie Hill, and involved himself in politics. The faction he led affected the outcome in multiple races. In 1933, he was given a position in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. While a judge in the Virgin Islands in 1935, he ordered that women there must be allowed to register and vote. After leaving government work in 1937, Levitt challenged the appointment of Hugo Black to the Supreme Court; in its decision, Ex parte Levitt, the court refused to consider his claims. He moved to California, and began to run as a fringe candidate in Republican primaries, including in the 1950 Senate election, finishing sixth out of six, behind the winner, Richard Nixon.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
860:
Rus' forces sailed into the Bosporus in a fleet of about 200 vessels and started pillaging the suburbs of Constantinople. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_%28860%29
1858:
Charles Darwin received a manuscript by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection, which encouraged him to publish his own theory of evolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace
1953:
A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikawa_air_disaster
1983:
Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women were hanged in Shiraz because of their membership in the Baháʼí Faith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Mahmudnizhad
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
kangatarian: A non-vegetarian who, for ethical reasons, does not eat meat from animals other than kangaroos, because they are sourced from the wild and not farmed. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kangatarian
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday. --Paul McCartney https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney