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Ruth Potapenko 1914 - 1992

Ruth Potapenko of Tacoma, Pierce County, WA was born on April 1, 1914, and died at age 78 years old on December 20, 1992.
Ruth Potapenko
Tacoma, Pierce County, WA 98408
April 1, 1914
December 20, 1992
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  • 04/1
    1914

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    April 1, 1914
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  • 12/20
    1992

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    December 20, 1992
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    Ruth Potapenko lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1914, in the year that Ruth Potapenko was born, in June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Yugoslavian national. Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to Serbia. Other major powers took sides - and World War I began: Austria declared war on Serbia; Germany on Russia and France; Britain on Germany . . . and on it went until most of the world was embroiled in the war.
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In 1933, by the time she was 19 years old, Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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