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Essie Drake 1906 - 1982

Essie Drake of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa was born on January 6, 1906, and died at age 76 years old in March 1982.

Essie Drake

Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa 50317

January 6, 1906

March 1982

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In 1906, in the year that Essie Drake was born, Finland became the first European country to give women the vote and to allow them to run for political office. (Women in Australia and New Zealand already had that right but couldn't run for office.) Although Finland belonged to the Russian Empire, there was great unrest and the Tsar wanted to broker a quick peace. As a part of the brokered peace, women got the vote.

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In 1934, when she was 28 years old, on July 22nd, gangster John Dillinger was killed in Chicago. His gang had robbed banks and police stations, among other charges, and he was being hunted by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI - although many in the public saw him as a "Robin Hood". A madam from a brothel in which he was hiding became an informer for the FBI and, after a shootout with FBI agents, Dillinger was shot and died.

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