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Benjamin West 1901 - 1981

Benjamin West of Southampton, Bucks County, PA was born on August 23, 1901, and died at age 79 years old in January 1981.
Benjamin West
Southampton, Bucks County, PA 18966
August 23, 1901
January 1981
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    1901

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    August 23, 1901
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  • 01/dd
    1981

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    January 1981
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    Benjamin West lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1901, in the year that Benjamin West was born, shortly after beginning his second term, President McKinley was assassinated by the self proclaimed anarchist Leon Czolgosz. The last President to have served in the Civil War - he began as a private and ended the war as a brevet major - McKinley was a Republican. First elected in 1896, he was re-elected in 1900. Six months after the swearing in, McKinley was shot - and died of the gangrene that set in as a result.
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In 1916, when he was just 15 years old, in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.
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