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Bernice J Gillette 1916 - 2005

Bernice J Gillette of Kingsport, Sullivan County, TN was born on March 18, 1916, and died at age 89 years old on September 10, 2005.
Bernice J Gillette
Kingsport, Sullivan County, TN 37662
March 18, 1916
September 10, 2005
Female
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  • 03/18
    1916

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    March 18, 1916
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  • 09/10
    2005

    Death

    September 10, 2005
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    Bernice J Gillette lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1916, in the year that Bernice J Gillette was born, suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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In 1942, she was 26 years old when on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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