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Josefa Cartagena 1906 - 1980

Josefa Cartagena of Puerto Rico was born on August 20, 1906, and died at age 73 years old in March 1980.
Josefa Cartagena
Puerto Rico 00654
August 20, 1906
March 1980
Female
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    1906

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    August 20, 1906
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  • 03/dd
    1980

    Death

    March 1980
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    Josefa Cartagena lived 5 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 73.
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In 1906, in the year that Josefa Cartagena was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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In 1920, she was merely 14 years old when the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, passed both Houses of Congress and was sent to the States to ratify. In August, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the Amendment and it became law eight days later. Mississippi ratified it in 1984.
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