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Margaret L Bergford 1897 - 1990

Margaret L Bergford was born on October 12, 1897, and died at age 92 years old on January 23, 1990. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Margaret L Bergford.
Margaret L Bergford
October 12, 1897
January 23, 1990
Female
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Margaret L Bergford's History: 1897 - 1990

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  • 10/12
    1897

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    October 12, 1897
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  • 01/23
    1990

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    January 23, 1990
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    Margaret L Bergford lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.
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In 1897, in the year that Margaret L Bergford was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1933, she was 36 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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