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Helen Melvin 1916 - 1979

Helen Melvin was born on August 18, 1916, and died at age 63 years old in August 1979. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Helen Melvin.
Helen Melvin
August 18, 1916
August 1979
Female
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Helen Melvin's History: 1916 - 1979

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    1916

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    August 18, 1916
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  • 08/dd
    1979

    Death

    August 1979
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    Helen Melvin lived 9 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 62.
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In 1916, in the year that Helen Melvin was born, suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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In 1933, at the age of 17 years old, Helen was alive 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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