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Austin D Silkey 1920 - 2003

Austin D Silkey of Northfield, Rice County, MN was born on December 25, 1920, and died at age 82 years old on October 19, 2003.
Austin D Silkey
Northfield, Rice County, MN 55057
December 25, 1920
October 19, 2003
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  • 12/25
    1920

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    December 25, 1920
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  • 10/19
    2003

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    October 19, 2003
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    Austin D Silkey lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1920, in the year that Austin D Silkey was born, the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, passed both Houses of Congress and was sent to the States to ratify. In August, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the Amendment and it became law eight days later. Mississippi ratified it in 1984.
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In 1933, at the age of only 13 years old, Austin was alive when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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