Dewey David D'Albert (1898 - 1961)

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Dewey David D'Albert & Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning

1961
Cause of Separation: Death
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, CA, United States

Dewey David D'Albert

Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning

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Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning

Feb 2, 1908 - Jan 28, 1987
Santa Cruz, CA, United States

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Dewey David D'Albert, 1956 California

Connie D'Albert, Frank Kroetsch, Dewey D'Albert

Dewey D'Albert, 1953 California

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In 1898, in the year that Dewey David D'Albert was born, on February 15th, the USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana harbor. The reason for the explosion has never been found, but it killed 266 men. "Remember the Maine" became a rallying cry and precipitated the United States' declaration of war on Spain two months later - the beginning of the Spanish-American War. On December 10th, the war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The Treaty gave the U.S. Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam - for $20 million - and, temporarily, Cuba.

In 1924, by the time he was 26 years old, J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.

In 1932, at the age of 34 years old, Dewey was alive when five years to the day after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland, the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo and the first to replicate Lindbergh's feat. She flew over 2,000 miles in just under 15 hours.

In 1946, at the age of 48 years old, Dewey was alive when on July 4th, the Philippines gained independence from the United States. In 1964, Independence Day in the Philippines was moved from July 4th to June 12th at the insistence of nationalists and historians.

In 1961, in the year of Dewey David D'Albert's passing, on January 20th, John F. Kennedy became the 35th President of the United States. He had previously been a U.S. Senator and a Congressman, both from the state of Massachusetts, as well as a Naval lieutenant in World War II.