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Oscar Gillespie 1917 - 1965

Oscar Gillespie was born on January 31, 1917, and died at age 48 years old in March 1965. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Oscar Gillespie.
Oscar Gillespie
January 31, 1917
March 1965
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Oscar Gillespie's History: 1917 - 1965

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  • 01/31
    1917

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    January 31, 1917
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  • 03/dd
    1965

    Death

    March 1965
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Oscar Gillespie lived 25 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 48.
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In 1917, in the year that Oscar Gillespie was born, Russian government offices were seized and the Romanov's Winter Palace was stormed in the Russian February and October Revolutions. The February revolution resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas and a coalition of the Parliament and workers parties taking control of the government. The October revolution resulted in Lenin and the Bolsheviks taking complete control.
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In 1933, Oscar was 16 years old when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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