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Lorwin Shook 1924 - 1982

Lorwin Shook of Dexter, Mower County, Minnesota was born on November 25, 1924, and died at age 57 years old in September 1982.
Lorwin Shook
Dexter, Mower County, Minnesota 55926
November 25, 1924
September 1982
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    1924

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    November 25, 1924
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    1982

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    September 1982
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    Lorwin Shook lived 16 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 57.
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In 1924, in the year that Lorwin Shook was born, on January 21st, Vladimir Lenin, a leader of the Russian Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union died. He had survived two assassination attempts but had subsequent physical problems, suffering 3 strokes. He was in such great pain, it is said that he asked Stalin to poison him. The circumstances of his death are still disputed. He did oppose Stalin as the next leader - nonetheless, Stalin won a power struggle and ruled as a Soviet dictator until his death in 1953.
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In 1933, at the age of only 9 years old, Lorwin was alive 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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