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Opal Balch 1914 - 1987

Opal Balch of Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon was born on April 25, 1914, and died at age 72 years old in February 1987.
Opal Balch
Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon 97116
April 25, 1914
February 1987
Female
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Opal Balch's History: 1914 - 1987

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  • 04/25
    1914

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    April 25, 1914
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  • 02/dd
    1987

    Death

    February 1987
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    Opal Balch lived 2 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 72.
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In 1914, in the year that Opal Balch was born, in June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Yugoslavian national. Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to Serbia. Other major powers took sides - and World War I began: Austria declared war on Serbia; Germany on Russia and France; Britain on Germany . . . and on it went until most of the world was embroiled in the war.
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In 1933, Opal was 19 years old when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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