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James A Melton 1920 - 2008

James A Melton of Louisville, Jefferson County, KY was born on May 8, 1920, and died at age 88 years old on July 5, 2008.
James A Melton
Louisville, Jefferson County, KY 40220
May 8, 1920
July 5, 2008
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    1920

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  • 07/5
    2008

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    July 5, 2008
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    James A Melton lived 18 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1920, in the year that James A Melton was born, the Volstead Act became law. Formally called the National Prohibition Act, the Volstead Act enabled law enforcement agencies to carry out the 18th Amendment. It said that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, or furnish any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act" and defined intoxicating liquor as any beverage containing more than 0.5% alcohol by volume.
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In 1945, at the age of 25 years old, James was alive when on April 12th, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. At 1p, he was sitting for a portrait when he complained that he had a "terrific pain" in the back of his head and collapsed. A doctor was summoned and the doctor gave him a shot of adrenaline into his heart. It didn't help and he was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m. A slow moving train took him back to Washington D.C. while thousands of mourners lined the tracks. He was buried at his home in Hyde Park, New York.
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