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Geneva M Butts 1924 - 2010

Geneva M Butts of Shawneetown, Gallatin County, IL was born on March 22, 1924, and died at age 86 years old on May 12, 2010.
Geneva M Butts
Shawneetown, Gallatin County, IL 62984
March 22, 1924
May 12, 2010
Female
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  • 03/22
    1924

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    March 22, 1924
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  • 05/12
    2010

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    May 12, 2010
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    Geneva M Butts lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1924, in the year that Geneva M Butts was born, in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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In 1933, she was only 9 years old 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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