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Lester A Cory 1925 - 1997

Lester A Cory of Davenport, Scott County, IA was born on February 26, 1925, and died at age 72 years old on October 26, 1997. Lester Cory was buried at Rock Island National Cemetery Section T Site 217 Bldg 118 - Rock Island Arsenal, in Rock Island, Il.

Lester A Cory

Davenport, Scott County, IA 52805

February 26, 1925

October 26, 1997

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1925

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February 26, 1925

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Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: PVT Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
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October 26, 1997

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Lester A Cory lived 3 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 72.

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In 1925, in the year that Lester A Cory was born, 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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In 1933, when he was merely 8 years old, 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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