In 1954, for instance, the voters soundly defeated a constitutional amendment proposed by the rural-dominated legislature and supported by a whispering campaign throughout LDS congregations that would have assured continued rural domination by guaranteeing each county one senator regardless of population.
Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia is an important early-American cemetery. It is the final resting place of Benjamin Franklin and his wife, Deborah. Four other signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried here, Benjamin Rush, Francis Hopkinson, Joseph Hewes and George Ross. Two more signers (James Wilson and Robert Morris) are buried at Christ Church just a few blocks away.
It was said that while Franklin was getting his portrait painted he complained of a headache. He then fell unconscious and soon passed away. On April 12, 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia. On April 15, 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was buried in Hyde Park, New York.