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Joan R Pettis 1933 - 2005

Joan R Pettis of Aurora, Du Page County, IL was born on March 5, 1933, and died at age 72 years old on November 24, 2005.
Joan R Pettis
Aurora, Du Page County, IL 60504
March 5, 1933
November 24, 2005
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  • 03/5
    1933

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    March 5, 1933
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  • 11/24
    2005

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    November 24, 2005
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In 1933, in the year that Joan R Pettis was born, Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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In 1945, at the age of merely 12 years old, Joan was alive when on August 6th, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. On August 9th, an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. At least 129,000 people were killed in the two bombings and they still remain the only use of atomic bombs in war. An invasion on mainland Japan had been planned but President Truman ordered the bombs dropped instead.
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