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Velma L Poteat 1916 - 2007

Velma L Poteat of Connellys Springs, Burke County, NC was born on May 11, 1916, and died at age 90 years old on March 19, 2007.
Velma L Poteat
Connellys Springs, Burke County, NC 28612
May 11, 1916
March 19, 2007
Female
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  • 05/11
    1916

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    May 11, 1916
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  • 03/19
    2007

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    March 19, 2007
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    Velma L Poteat lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1916, in the year that Velma L Poteat 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 1920, when she was only 4 years old, on November 2, radio station KDKA began broadcasting in Pittsburgh, PA. This was the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States. Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of radios and the backer of the station, chose the date because of the Presidential election. People liked it because they could hear about the results of the election between Harding and Cox before the morning papers arrived. Four years later, there were 600 commercial stations broadcasting in the U.S.
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