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Whitfield Cook 1904 - 1976

Whitfield Cook of Panama City, Bay County, Florida was born on May 30, 1904, and died at age 72 years old in June 1976.
Whitfield Cook
Panama City, Bay County, Florida 32401
May 30, 1904
June 1976
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  • 05/30
    1904

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    May 30, 1904
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  • 06/dd
    1976

    Death

    June 1976
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    Unknown
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    Whitfield Cook lived exactly as long as the average family member when died at the age of 72.
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In 1904, in the year that Whitfield Cook was born, the Russo-Japanese war began. The Russian Empire and the Japanese Empire began fighting over the territories of Manchuria and Korea. Russia wanted a warm water port on the Pacific Ocean while Japan feared growing encroachment from Russia into Asia. So the Japan fleet launched a surprise attack on the Russian Navy and a one year war began. President Roosevelt of the United States brokered peace between the two nations. It was the first time in the modern era that an Asian power showed its dominance over a European power.
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In 1933, Whitfield was 29 years old when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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