The Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States began on March 4, 1863 and ended on March 3, 1865. March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1865 is a common year starting on Sunday. ...
It was this Congress which proposed to the state legislatures for ratification what later became the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution that outlawed slavery uniformly throughout the nation. Amendment XIII (the Thirteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution states: Section 1 Section 2 Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ...
"statutes" or "statutory law") consists exclusively of Acts passed by the Congress of the UnitedStates (and its predecessor, the Continental Congress), which were either signed into law by the President or passed by Congress after a presidential veto.
Acts of Congress are published in the UnitedStates Statutes at Large.
Today, Acts of Congress are designated in the form: Public Law X-Y where X is the number of the ordinal Congress and Y is the number of the chronological order of the Act in that Congress.
Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th President of the UnitedStates, was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska.
He won the nomination by a wide margin and was elected to Congress on November 2, receiving 61 percent of the vote in the general election.
When Spiro Agnew resigned the office of Vice President of the UnitedStates late in 1973, after pleading no contest to a charge of income tax evasion, President Nixon was empowered by the 25th Amendment to appoint a new vice president.
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