No one person. It was the US Congress that proposed it on February 26th 1879. The Fifteenth Amendment was the result of a gradual development of the idea of racial equality in the matter of electoral voting rights.
Most states had ratified it by 1880.
The last state to adopt and ratify it was Tennessee, in 1997.
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