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Rufus Smith 1935 - 2006

Rufus Smith of Detroit, Wayne County, MI was born on June 23, 1935, and died at age 71 years old on December 16, 2006.
Rufus Smith
Detroit, Wayne County, MI 48235
June 23, 1935
December 16, 2006
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  • 06/23
    1935

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    June 23, 1935
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  • 12/16
    2006

    Death

    December 16, 2006
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    Rufus Smith lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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In 1935, in the year that Rufus Smith was born, the BOI's name (the Bureau of Investigation) was changed to the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and it officially became a separate agency with the Department of Justice. J. Edgar Hoover, the Chief of the BOI, continued in his office and became the first Director of the FBI. The FBI's responsibility is to "detect and prosecute crimes against the United States".
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In 1942, he was merely 7 years old 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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