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Dorothy J Peterson 1920 - 1996

Dorothy J Peterson of Plainfield, Union County, NJ was born on December 4, 1920, and died at age 75 years old on October 29, 1996.

Dorothy J Peterson
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Plainfield, Union County, NJ 07060
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In 1920, in the year that Dorothy J Peterson was born, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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In 1933, at the age of merely 13 years old, Dorothy was alive when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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Peterson, Dorothy (Born Jan 22, 1940) Peterson, Dorothy Peterson, Dorothy (Jun 28, 1922 - Jun 11, 1997) Peterson, Dorothy (May 25, 1927 - Feb 7, 2013) Peterson, Dorothy (Sep 10, 1919 - Mar 25, 2013) Peterson, Dorothy (Apr 21, 1915 - Jun 29, 2007) Peterson, Dorothy (Nov 30, 1919 - May 15, 2006) Peterson, Dorothy (Jun 7, 1924 - May 24, 2005) Peterson, Dorothy (Nov 11, 1921 - Apr 8, 2005) Peterson, Dorothy (Jul 17, 1918 - Dec 31, 1990)
Peterson, Dorothy (Mar 10, 1921 - Mar 18, 1960) Peterson, Dorothy (Jan 24, 1918 - Apr 23, 1997) Peterson, Dorothy (Jan 31, 1914 - Dec 16, 1992) Peterson, Dorothy (Jul 31, 1901 - Aug 1980) Peterson, Dorothy (Jan 15, 1915 - Jan 15, 1998) Peterson, Dorothy (May 14, 1922 - Oct 1996) Peterson, Dorothy (Dec 22, 1908 - Jun 1986) Peterson, Dorothy (Oct 12, 1901 - Jul 24, 1991) Peterson, Dorothy (Sep 14, 1901 - Nov 1983) Peterson, Dorothy (Aug 24, 1906 - Jun 12, 1995)

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Peterson, Daniel (Born 1860) Peterson, Emma (Born May 17, 1877) Peterson, John (Born Jan 29, 1945) Peterson, Jamima (Born Apr 12, 1857) Peterson, Ida (Born Jun 1866) Peterson, Roy (Born 1914) Peterson, Nora (Born 1925) Peterson, James (Born 1926) Peterson, Elmo (Born c. 1912) Peterson, Warren (Born 1937)
Peterson, Luella I (Born Sep 9, 1902) Peterson, Gustavus (Nov 7, 1879 - May 1968) Peterson, Artheta (Born 1940) Peterson, Earnest (Dec 4, 1929 - Aug 25, 1996) Peterson, Charles (Born Jul 28, 1818) Peterson, Albena (Born Jan 20, 1892) Peterson, Sarah (Born 1887) Peterson-Zimmerman, Doris (Born Jan 5, 1917) Peterson, Beatrice (Born 1923) Peterson, Soren
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