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James A Gist 1916 - 1997

James A Gist of Elko, Elko County, NV was born on July 1, 1916, and died at age 81 years old on October 31, 1997.
James A Gist
Elko, Elko County, NV 89801
July 1, 1916
October 31, 1997
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    1916

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    July 1, 1916
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  • 10/31
    1997

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    October 31, 1997
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In 1916, in the year that James A Gist 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 1942, by the time he was 26 years old, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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