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John Penning 1903 - 1985

John Penning of Algona, Kossuth County, Iowa was born on September 13, 1903, and died at age 81 years old in August 1985.
John Penning
Algona, Kossuth County, Iowa 50511
September 13, 1903
August 1985
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    1903

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    September 13, 1903
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    1985

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    August 1985
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    John Penning lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1903, in the year that John Penning was born, the United States Department of Commerce and Labor was created by President Theodore Roosevelt to control the excesses of big business. Renamed the Department of Commerce 10 years later, many departments concerned with workers were transferred to the Department of Labor at that time. Another spin-off, the Bureau of Corporations, became the Federal Trade Commission.
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In 1925, he was 22 years old when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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