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Harold Washington 1901 - 1971

Harold Washington of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois was born on January 21, 1901, and died at age 70 years old in April 1971.
Harold Washington
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60615
January 21, 1901
April 1971
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    1901

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    January 21, 1901
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  • 04/dd
    1971

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    April 1971
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    Harold Washington lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 70.
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In 1901, in the year that Harold Washington was born, John Pierpont "J. P." Morgan created U.S. Steel. J.P. Morgan was an American banker and financier who dominated U.S. business at this time. He had previously overseen the creation of General Electric, as well as International Harvester and AT&T. He has been referred to as America's greatest banker. U.S. Steel was the first billion dollar company in the world, worth $1.4 billion in 1901.
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In 1933, he was 32 years old 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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