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Leon Edward Carpenter 1916 - 2009

Leon Edward Carpenter of Orlando, Orange County, Florida was born on September 8, 1916, and died at age 92 years old on March 12, 2009.
Leon Edward Carpenter
Orlando, Orange County, Florida 32806
September 8, 1916
March 12, 2009
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  • 09/8
    1916

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    September 8, 1916
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  • 03/12
    2009

    Death

    March 12, 2009
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    Leon Edward Carpenter lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1916, in the year that Leon Edward Carpenter was born, suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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In 1925, at the age of just 9 years old, Leon was alive 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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