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Jan Gadkowski 1921 - 2010

Jan Gadkowski of Naperville, Du Page County, IL was born on December 6, 1921, and died at age 88 years old on July 2, 2010.
Jan Gadkowski
Naperville, Du Page County, IL 60563
December 6, 1921
July 2, 2010
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  • 12/6
    1921

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    December 6, 1921
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  • 07/2
    2010

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    July 2, 2010
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    Jan Gadkowski lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1921, in the year that Jan Gadkowski was born, on November 11th, the first burial was held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. The body of an unknown soldier - selected by Army Sgt. Edward F. Younger who was highly decorated for valor and received the Distinguished Service Cross in "The Great War" - was brought back from France (World War 1) and placed in the newly completed tomb. President Warren G. Harding officiated at the interment ceremonies.
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In 1933, Jan was just 12 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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