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Francis M Okey 1906 - 1999

Francis M Okey of Detroit, Wayne County, MI was born on October 24, 1906, and died at age 92 years old on September 18, 1999.
Francis M Okey
Detroit, Wayne County, MI 48207
October 24, 1906
September 18, 1999
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  • 10/24
    1906

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    October 24, 1906
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  • 09/18
    1999

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    September 18, 1999
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    Francis M Okey lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1906, in the year that Francis M Okey was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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In 1924, Francis was 18 years old when 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.
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