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Maria Quijas 1916 - 1987

Maria Quijas of El Paso, El Paso County, Texas was born on March 4, 1916, and died at age 70 years old in January 1987.
Maria Quijas
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas 79915
March 4, 1916
January 1987
Female
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Maria Quijas' History: 1916 - 1987

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    1916

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    March 4, 1916
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  • 01/dd
    1987

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    January 1987
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    Maria Quijas lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 70.
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In 1916, in the year that Maria Quijas was born, suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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In 1933, at the age of 17 years old, Maria 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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