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Meriel M Burhans 1906 - 1988

Meriel M Burhans of Berkeley, Alameda County, CA was born on June 17, 1906, and died at age 81 years old on April 22, 1988.
Meriel M Burhans
Berkeley, Alameda County, CA 94709
June 17, 1906
April 22, 1988
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Meriel M Burhans' History: 1906 - 1988

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  • 06/17
    1906

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    June 17, 1906
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  • 04/22
    1988

    Death

    April 22, 1988
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    Meriel M Burhans lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1906, in the year that Meriel M Burhans was born, Finland became the first European country to give women the vote and to allow them to run for political office. (Women in Australia and New Zealand already had that right but couldn't run for office.) Although Finland belonged to the Russian Empire, there was great unrest and the Tsar wanted to broker a quick peace. As a part of the brokered peace, women got the vote.
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In 1933, she was 27 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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