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Biden voted to restore citizenship to Confederate president Jefferson Davis

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Biden voted to restore citizenship to Confederate president Jefferson Davis

Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden once voted to restore the U.S. citizenship of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

The former vice president, 76, was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that unanimously approved a bill in 1977. The measure was sent to the full Senate, where it was approved without dissent and later signed into law by President Jimmy Carter.

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