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Floyd Gates 1915 - 1987

Floyd Gates of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama was born on March 31, 1915, and died at age 71 years old in March 1987.
Floyd Gates
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama 35211
March 31, 1915
March 1987
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Floyd Gates' History: 1915 - 1987

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  • 03/31
    1915

    Birthday

    March 31, 1915
    Birthdate
    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Ethnicity & Family History

    Negro, Citizen
  • Nationality & Locations

    Jefferson County, Alabama United States
  • Early Life & Education

    Grammar School
  • Military Service

    Military serial#: 34745545 Enlisted: November 21, 1945 in Kearns Utah Military branch: Air Corps Rank: Private First Class, Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, And Enlisted Men) Terms of enlistment: Enlistment For Hawaiian Department
  • 03/dd
    1987

    Death

    March 1987
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Unknown
    Death location
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Did you know?
In 1915, in the year that Floyd Gates was born, in April, the Ottoman Empire rounded up, arrested, and deported 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Turkey. As their actions continued through the next several years, an estimated 600,000 to 1 million Armenians were killed by Turkish soldiers.
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In 1933, he was 18 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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