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William Griffin 1896 - 1974

William Griffin of Sandston, Henrico County, Virginia was born on July 1, 1896, and died at age 78 years old in November 1974.
William Griffin
Sandston, Henrico County, Virginia 23150
July 1, 1896
November 1974
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    1896

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    July 1, 1896
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    1974

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    November 1974
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    William Griffin lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1896, in the year that William Griffin was born, on January 28th, the first ticket for speeding - called "furious driving" - was issued. Walter Arnold of Kent England was fined 1 shilling plus costs - for going 8 mph. The speed limit was 2 mph.
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In 1933, William was 37 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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