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Matilde G Cortes 1904 - 2002

Matilde G Cortes of Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL was born on December 24, 1904, and died at age 97 years old on August 31, 2002.
Matilde G Cortes
Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL 33615
December 24, 1904
August 31, 2002
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  • 12/24
    1904

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    December 24, 1904
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  • 08/31
    2002

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    August 31, 2002
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    Matilde G Cortes lived 28 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 97.
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In 1904, in the year that Matilde G Cortes was born, the "Teddy's Bear" was first produced. After seeing a political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to kill a clubbed and tied up bear, Jewish Russian immigrant Morris Michtom - who owned a candy shop and sold stuffed animals that he and his wife made at night at the store - made a "Teddy's Bear" and put it in his shop's window. The stuffed bears were an immediate success and Michtom and his wife went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.
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In 1916, at the age of just 12 years old, Matilde was alive when 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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