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Martha A Peterson 1924 - 2009

Martha A Peterson of Selah, Yakima County, WA was born on June 21, 1924, and died at age 84 years old on January 7, 2009.
Martha A Peterson
Selah, Yakima County, WA 98942
June 21, 1924
January 7, 2009
Female
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  • 06/21
    1924

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    June 21, 1924
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  • 01/7
    2009

    Death

    January 7, 2009
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    Martha A Peterson lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1924, in the year that Martha A Peterson 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 1942, by the time she was 18 years old, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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