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Wilson L Lyon 1924 - 1998

Wilson L Lyon of Kennebunk, York County, ME was born on November 24, 1924, and died at age 73 years old on February 17, 1998. Wilson Lyon was buried at Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery Section RC Row 12 Site 39 Box 916a - Old Belgrade Road, in Augusta.
Wilson L Lyon
Kennebunk, York County, ME 04043
November 24, 1924
February 17, 1998
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  • 11/24
    1924

    Birthday

    November 24, 1924
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: LTC Wars/Conflicts: Vietnam
  • 02/17
    1998

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    February 17, 1998
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    Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery Section RC Row 12 Site 39 Box 916a - Old Belgrade Road, in Augusta, Me 04330
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In 1924, in the year that Wilson L Lyon was born, J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.
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In 1933, at the age of only 9 years old, Wilson was alive 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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