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Boyd Sweatt 1917 - 1966

Boyd Sweatt (1917 - 1966)
Full legal name
Boyd Sweatt
Last Known Residence
Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina 29520
Born
September 10, 1917
Death
March 1966
Summary
Boyd Sweatt of Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina was born on September 10, 1917, and died at age 48 years old in March 1966.

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Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina 29520
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September 10, 1917
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Boyd Sweatt passed away at age 48 years old in March 1966. Boyd Sweatt of Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina was born on September 10, 1917.

Average Age & Life Expectancy

Boyd Sweatt lived 23 years shorter than the average Sweatt family member when he died at the age of 48.
The average age of a Sweatt family member is 71.
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1917 - 1966 World Events

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In 1917, in the year that Boyd Sweatt was born, the U.S. Virgin Islands were purchased from Denmark in January. While they are U.S. citizens, Virgin Islanders are ineligible to vote for the President of the United States.

In 1921, Boyd was only 4 years old when in May, the Emergency Quota Act - or Emergency Immigration Act - was passed. The law restricted the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year. It also established an immigration quota in which only 3 per cent of the total population of any ethnic group already in the USA in 1910, could be admitted to America after 1921. Although the Act was supposed to be temporary, it stayed in effect until 1965.

In 1933, at the age of 16 years old, Boyd was alive when on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment.

In 1949, Boyd was 32 years old when comedian Milton Berle hosted the first telethon show. It raised $1,100,000 for cancer research and lasted 16 hours. The next day, newspapers, in writing about the event, first used the word "telethon."

In 1966, in the year of Boyd Sweatt's passing, on July 1st, Medicare became available after President Johnson signed into law the Medicare Act in 1965. President Truman had received the first Medicare card since he had been the first to propose national healthcare law. insurance.

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