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Sylvester Williams 1916 - 1992

Sylvester Williams of Lorain, Lorain County, OH was born on May 24, 1916, and died at age 76 years old on September 27, 1992.
Sylvester Williams
Lorain, Lorain County, OH 44052
May 24, 1916
September 27, 1992
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Sylvester Williams' History: 1916 - 1992

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  • 05/24
    1916

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    May 24, 1916
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  • 09/27
    1992

    Death

    September 27, 1992
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    Sylvester Williams lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.
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In 1916, in the year that Sylvester Williams was born, suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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In 1942, at the age of 26 years old, Sylvester was alive 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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