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Barney Hughes 1924 - 1981

Barney Hughes of Charleston, Kanawha County, WV was born on July 2, 1924, and died at age 57 years old on December 1, 1981.
Barney Hughes
Charleston, Kanawha County, WV 25302
July 2, 1924
December 1, 1981
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Barney Hughes' History: 1924 - 1981

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  • 07/2
    1924

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    July 2, 1924
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  • 12/1
    1981

    Death

    December 1, 1981
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    Barney Hughes lived 15 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 57.
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In 1924, in the year that Barney Hughes was born, on January 21st, Vladimir Lenin, a leader of the Russian Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union died. He had survived two assassination attempts but had subsequent physical problems, suffering 3 strokes. He was in such great pain, it is said that he asked Stalin to poison him. The circumstances of his death are still disputed. He did oppose Stalin as the next leader - nonetheless, Stalin won a power struggle and ruled as a Soviet dictator until his death in 1953.
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In 1933, at the age of just 9 years old, Barney 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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