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Jeannette Petery 1916 - 1989

Jeannette Petery of Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA was born on May 5, 1916, and died at age 72 years old in January 1989.
Jeannette Petery
Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA 17101
May 5, 1916
January 1989
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Jeannette Petery's History: 1916 - 1989

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    1916

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    May 5, 1916
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  • 01/dd
    1989

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    January 1989
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    Jeannette Petery lived 3 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 72.
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In 1916, in the year that Jeannette Petery 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 1938, when she was 22 years old, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
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