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Margaret Ruth Gist 1924 - 2006

Margaret Ruth Gist of Saint Paul, Ramsey County, MN was born on February 19, 1924, and died at age 82 years old on November 20, 2006. Margaret Gist was buried at Ft. Snelling National Cemetery Section 30 Site 256 7601 34th Avenue, South, in Minneapolis.
Margaret Ruth Gist
Saint Paul, Ramsey County, MN 55110
February 19, 1924
November 20, 2006
Female
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  • 02/19
    1924

    Birthday

    February 19, 1924
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: CPL Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
  • 11/20
    2006

    Death

    November 20, 2006
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    Ft. Snelling National Cemetery Section 30 Site 256 7601 34th Avenue, South, in Minneapolis, Mn 55450
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In 1924, in the year that Margaret Ruth Gist was born, J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.
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In 1933, Margaret was merely 9 years old 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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