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Richard J Rafferty 1917 - 2009

Richard J Rafferty of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, FL was born on January 18, 1917, and died at age 92 years old on August 11, 2009. Richard Rafferty was buried at South Florida National Cemetery Section 36E Site 171 6501 S. State Road 7, in Lake Worth.
Richard J Rafferty
West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, FL 33414
January 18, 1917
August 11, 2009
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  • 01/18
    1917

    Birthday

    January 18, 1917
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: M SGT Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
  • 08/11
    2009

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    August 11, 2009
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    South Florida National Cemetery Section 36E Site 171 6501 S. State Road 7, in Lake Worth, Fl 33467
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In 1917, in the year that Richard J Rafferty was born, it is believed that a worldwide influenza pandemic began in Asia. By 1920, it is estimated that 50 - 100 million died throughout the world (3 - 5% of the population). In the U.S. alone, 500,000 perished from what came to be called the Spanish Flu or the 1918 flu.
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In 1933, when he was 16 years old, 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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