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Bessie M Thomas 1916 - 1996

Bessie M Thomas of Gary, Lake County, IN was born on July 19, 1916, and died at age 80 years old on October 21, 1996.
Bessie M Thomas
Gary, Lake County, IN 46407
July 19, 1916
October 21, 1996
Female
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  • 07/19
    1916

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    July 19, 1916
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  • 10/21
    1996

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    October 21, 1996
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    Bessie M Thomas lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 80.
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In 1916, in the year that Bessie M Thomas 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 1945, Bessie was 29 years old when on April 12th, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. At 1p, he was sitting for a portrait when he complained that he had a "terrific pain" in the back of his head and collapsed. A doctor was summoned and the doctor gave him a shot of adrenaline into his heart. It didn't help and he was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m. A slow moving train took him back to Washington D.C. while thousands of mourners lined the tracks. He was buried at his home in Hyde Park, New York.
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