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Jess Murdock 1914 - 1974

Jess Murdock of Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington was born on September 1, 1914, and died at age 59 years old in April 1974.
Jess Murdock
Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington 98493
September 1, 1914
April 1974
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    1914

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    September 1, 1914
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  • 04/dd
    1974

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    April 1974
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    Jess Murdock lived 14 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 59.
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In 1914, in the year that Jess Murdock was born, in June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Yugoslavian national. Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to Serbia. Other major powers took sides - and World War I began: Austria declared war on Serbia; Germany on Russia and France; Britain on Germany . . . and on it went until most of the world was embroiled in the war.
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In 1933, at the age of 19 years old, Jess was alive 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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