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Jesse Owens 1919 - 1969

Jesse Owens of West Monroe, Ouachita County, Louisiana was born on April 1, 1919, and died at age 50 years old in May 1969.
Jesse Owens
West Monroe, Ouachita County, Louisiana 71291
April 1, 1919
May 1969
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    1919

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    April 1, 1919
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    1969

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    May 1969
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    Jesse Owens lived 20 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 50.
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In 1919, in the year that Jesse Owens was born, on January 6th, President Theodore Roosevelt died. Having gone to bed the previous night after being treated for breathing problems, the ex-President died in his sleep from a clot that had traveled to his lungs. He was 60. After a simple service, Roosevelt was buried on a hillside overlooking Oyster Bay.
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In 1929, Jesse was only 10 years old when American Samoa officially became a U.S. territory. Although a part of the United States since 1900, the Ratification Act of 1929 vested "all civil, judicial, and military powers in the President of the United States of America".
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