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Elmer H Ribbe (1901 - 1989)

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Elmer H Ribbe
1901 - 1989
Born
February 2, 1901
Death
August 20, 1989
Last Known Residence
Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina 29605
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Elmer H Ribbe of Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina was born on February 2, 1901, and died at age 88 years old on August 20, 1989.
Updated: October 4, 2011
Biography ID: 11931891

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Elmer Ribbe passed away at age 88 years old on August 20, 1989. Elmer H Ribbe of Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina was born on February 2, 1901.

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Elmer H Ribbe lived 14 years longer than the average Ribbe family member when he died at the age of 88.
The average age of a Ribbe family member is 74.
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In 1901, in the year that Elmer H Ribbe was born, Teddy Roosevelt became the 26th President of the United States. TR, as he was known, had been Vice-President for 6 months when President William McKinley was assassinated. At age 42, he became the youngest President to serve although John Kennedy, at age 43, was the youngest President elected. He was a popular progressive and was elected to a second term in 1904 as a Republican, winning 56.4% of the popular vote and 336 electoral votes.

In 1919, at the age of 18 years old, Elmer was alive when on January 6th, President Theodore Roosevelt died. Having gone to bed the previous night after being treated for breathing problems, the ex-President died in his sleep from a clot that had traveled to his lungs. He was 60. After a simple service, Roosevelt was buried on a hillside overlooking Oyster Bay.

In 1948, when he was 47 years old, on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. The man, Nathuram Godse, shot Gandhi 3 times. He died immediately. The shooter was tried, convicted, and hung in November 1949.

In 1953, he was 52 years old when on July 27th, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. The Armistice was to last until "a final peaceful settlement is achieved". No peaceful settlement has ever been agreed upon.

In 1989, in the year of Elmer H Ribbe's passing, on January 20th, George Herbert Walker Bush became the 41st President of the United States. Previously Ronald Regan's Vice President, he ran against Michael Dukakis and won the popular vote by 53.4% to 45.6%.

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