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Melba W Collins 1921 - 2006

Melba W Collins of Cary, Wake County, NC was born on February 25, 1921, and died at age 85 years old on August 5, 2006.
Melba W Collins
Cary, Wake County, NC 27513
February 25, 1921
August 5, 2006
Female
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  • 02/25
    1921

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    February 25, 1921
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  • 08/5
    2006

    Death

    August 5, 2006
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    Melba W Collins lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1921, in the year that Melba W Collins was born, on March 4, Warren G. Harding became President. Previously a U.S. Senator, Lieutenant Governor, and Ohio State Senator, Harding was a popular President. But many scandals plagued his short administration (he died in office after 2 and a half years), including the revelations of one of his mistresses and the Teapot Dome scandal. Historically, Harding is rated as one of the worst Presidents.
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In 1933, at the age of only 12 years old, Melba 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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