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Lois Mcdowell 1915 - 2002

Lois Mcdowell of Georgetown, Vermilion County, IL was born on December 8, 1915, and died at age 86 years old on September 9, 2002.
Lois Mcdowell
Georgetown, Vermilion County, IL 61846
December 8, 1915
September 9, 2002
Female
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  • 12/8
    1915

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    December 8, 1915
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  • 09/9
    2002

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    September 9, 2002
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    Lois Mcdowell lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1915, in the year that Lois Mcdowell was born, The Birth of a Nation opened in February. A silent film, it was the most ambitious film to date and is considered a classic. Three hours long, it starred Lillian Gish and was directed by D. W. Griffith. The movie was based on the book The Clansman and told the story of two families (one pro-Union and one pro-Confederate) and their relationship during the Civil War and Reconstruction. The KKK was shown as "a heroic force".
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In 1933, Lois was 18 years old when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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