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Melvin R Rhoades 1914 - 1990

Melvin R Rhoades of Buena Vista, Buena Vista City County, VA was born on August 15, 1914, and died at age 76 years old on December 14, 1990.
Melvin R Rhoades
Buena Vista, Buena Vista City County, VA 24416
August 15, 1914
December 14, 1990
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  • 08/15
    1914

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    August 15, 1914
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  • 12/14
    1990

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    December 14, 1990
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    Melvin R Rhoades lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.
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In 1914, in the year that Melvin R Rhoades was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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In 1942, at the age of 28 years old, Melvin was alive when 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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