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Gretchen Wheeler 1916 - 1979

Gretchen Wheeler of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa was born on September 4, 1916, and died at age 62 years old in June 1979.

Gretchen Wheeler
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Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa 50317
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In 1916, in the year that Gretchen Wheeler 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 1931, at the age of just 15 years old, Gretchen was alive when in March, “The Star Spangled Banner” officially became the national anthem by congressional resolution. Other songs had previously been used - among them, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", "God Bless America", and "America the Beautiful". There was fierce debate about making "The Star Spangled Banner" the national anthem - Southerners and veterans organizations supported it, pacifists and educators opposed it.
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Wheeler, B. Wheeler, Wilma (Jan 19, 1901 - 1964) Wheeler, Mary (Born 1897) Wheeler, Carmen (Nov 26, 1902 - Mar 1978) Wheeler, Ormand (Born Apr 5, 1906) Wheeler, Holland (Born Aug 27, 1898) Nichols, Eula (Born Sep 16, 1896) Wheeler, Edith (Born Dec 10, 1892) Wheeler, Arthur (Born Apr 22, 1846) Wheeler, Bessie (Born Dec 1879)
Wheeler, John (Born 1848) Morris-Wheeler, Sarah (Born 1851) Wheeler, Robert (Born Mar 13, 1875) Wheeler, Elizabeth (Born c. 1816) Wheeler, Harvey (Born Jul 8, 1889) Wheeler, Roy (Born Jul 1, 1894) Wheeler, Catherine Dady (Born Jul 18, 1851) Wheeler, Samuel James K. (Born Jun 23, 1850) Wheeler, Catherine (Born Jun 18, 1851) Wheeler, Samuel (Born Jun 23, 1850)
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