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George Short 1882 - 1971

George Short of Afton, Union County, Iowa was born on October 28, 1882, and died at age 88 years old in April 1971.
George Short
Afton, Union County, Iowa 50830
October 28, 1882
April 1971
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    1882

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    October 28, 1882
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  • 04/dd
    1971

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    April 1971
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    George Short lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1882, in the year that George Short was born, on September 4th, the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in the U.S. - at 255-257 Pearl Street - was flipped by Thomas Edison. It lit one square mile of lower Manhattan and was powered by coal. The "electrical age" had begun.
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In 1940, George was 58 years old when on November 5th, President Franklin Roosevelt was elected to a third term, defeating Wendell Willkie of Indiana (a corporate lawyer). Roosevelt running for a third term was controversial. But the U.S. was emerging from the Great Recession and he promised that he would not involve the country in any foreign war (which of course changed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor). Roosevelt defeated Willkie in the popular vote by 54.7 to 44.8% and in the Electoral College 449 to 82.
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