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Leon R Cottom 1927 - 2003

Leon R Cottom of Fairview Heights, Saint Clair County, IL was born on February 15, 1927, and died at age 75 years old on January 26, 2003.

Leon R Cottom
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Fairview Heights, Saint Clair County, IL 62208
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In 1927, in the year that Leon R Cottom was born, the first "talkie" (a movie with music, songs, and talking), The Jazz Singer, was released. Al Jolson starred as a cantor's son who instead of following in his father's footsteps as expected, becomes a singer of popular songs. Banished by his father, they reconcile on his father's deathbed. It was a tear-jerker and audiences went wild - especially when they heard the songs. Thus begun the demise of silent films and the rise of "talkies".
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In 1933, at the age of merely 6 years old, Leon was alive when 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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Cottom, John (Born Oct 16, 1881) Cottom, Clara E (Born Oct 9, 1887) Cottom, Lina (Apr 30, 1937 - Jul 16, 1996) Cottom, Marion (Oct 2, 1899 - Mar 15, 1971) Cottom, Rena (Feb 25, 1901 - Jun 1, 1988) Cottom, James (Feb 25, 1907 - Jul 1966) Cottom, Thomas (Apr 30, 1890 - Jul 1974) Cottom, Iva (Mar 15, 1906 - Apr 1975) Cottom, Verdie (Feb 12, 1909 - Apr 1987) Cottom, Shirley (Jan 16, 1925 - Sep 8, 2000)
Cottom, Henry (Aug 23, 1905 - Jan 1981) Cottom, John (May 4, 1924 - Oct 15, 1997) Cottom, Emmaline (Feb 23, 1905 - Dec 1991) Cottom, Blaine (Apr 9, 1925 - Oct 27, 2002) Cottom, Donald (Oct 6, 1925 - Dec 1, 2000) Cottom, John (Jul 10, 1892 - Jun 1975) Cottom, Inez (Oct 21, 1895 - Aug 1981) Cottom, Edna (May 7, 1911 - May 2, 1996) Cottom, William (Sep 21, 1924 - Dec 1, 1984) Cottom, Maynard (Apr 1, 1897 - Mar 1974)
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