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Gela Cooper 1916 - 2007

Gela Cooper of New York, New York County, NY was born on August 20, 1916, and died at age 90 years old on May 26, 2007.

Gela Cooper
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New York, New York County, NY 10025
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August 20, 1916
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In 1916, in the year that Gela Cooper 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 1922, at the age of only 6 years old, Gela was alive when on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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Cooper, Ione (Born 1907) Cooper, Ellen (Born Oct 9, 1881) Cooper, Aileen (Born 1908) Hopper, Frances (Born 1870) Cooper, Nellie (Born 1885) Cooper, Mintie (Oct 28, 1875 - Mar 15, 1967) Cooper, Edith (Born Aug 30, 1899) Patterson, Ethel (Oct 1, 1897 - Feb 28, 1969) Cooper, Clayton Cooper, Lillie
Cooper, Robert (Born 1892) Cooper, Tommie Cooper, Sellers (Born Feb 4, 1875) Cooper, Ruby (Born May 6, 1905) Cooper, Ethel (Born Dec 3, 1898) Cooper, Epsie (Nov 1, 1901 - Jan 7, 1990) Cooper, Cassie (Born Nov 19, 1878) Cooper-Dixon, Martha 'mattie' (Born Jul 20, 1863) Thornton-Cooper, Georgia? (Born Oct 1856) Cooper-Chambers, Susan (Born Sep 19, 1846)
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