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Ruth E West 1901 - 1999

Ruth E West of Mobile, Mobile County, AL was born on August 2, 1901, and died at age 97 years old on April 30, 1999.
Ruth E West
Mobile, Mobile County, AL 36604
August 2, 1901
April 30, 1999
Female
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  • 08/2
    1901

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    August 2, 1901
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  • 04/30
    1999

    Death

    April 30, 1999
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    Ruth E West lived 25 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 97.
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In 1901, in the year that Ruth E West was born, Teddy Roosevelt became the 26th President of the United States. TR, as he was known, had been Vice-President for 6 months when President William McKinley was assassinated. At age 42, he became the youngest President to serve although John Kennedy, at age 43, was the youngest President elected. He was a popular progressive and was elected to a second term in 1904 as a Republican, winning 56.4% of the popular vote and 336 electoral votes.
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In 1916, at the age of merely 15 years old, Ruth was alive when visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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