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Gaylon R Downing 1923 - 2005

Gaylon R Downing of Chandler, Maricopa County, AZ was born on August 6, 1923, and died at age 82 years old on September 15, 2005.
Gaylon R Downing
Chandler, Maricopa County, AZ 85248
August 6, 1923
September 15, 2005
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  • 08/6
    1923

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    August 6, 1923
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  • 09/15
    2005

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    September 15, 2005
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    Gaylon R Downing lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1923, in the year that Gaylon R Downing was born, on November 8th and 9th, Adolf Hitler and his followers (the early Nazi party) staged the "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich in an attempt to take over Bavaria (a state in Germany). They failed. Hitler was charged with treason and convicted, receiving a sentence of 5 years. He served under 1 year in jail.
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In 1933, at the age of merely 10 years old, Gaylon was alive when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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