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Benjamin Sperling 1914 - 2010

Benjamin Sperling of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA was born on July 24, 1914, and died at age 95 years old on June 19, 2010.
Benjamin Sperling
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA 19152
July 24, 1914
June 19, 2010
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    1914

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    July 24, 1914
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  • 06/19
    2010

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    June 19, 2010
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    Benjamin Sperling lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.
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In 1914, in the year that Benjamin Sperling was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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In 1933, at the age of 19 years old, Benjamin was alive when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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