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Otha Polston 1901 - 1969

Otha Polston of Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana was born on May 7, 1901, and died at age 67 years old in January 1969.
Otha Polston
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana 46218
May 7, 1901
January 1969
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Otha Polston's History: 1901 - 1969

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  • 05/7
    1901

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    May 7, 1901
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  • 01/dd
    1969

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    January 1969
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    Otha Polston lived 2 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 67.
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In 1901, in the year that Otha Polston was born, shortly after beginning his second term, President McKinley was assassinated by the self proclaimed anarchist Leon Czolgosz. The last President to have served in the Civil War - he began as a private and ended the war as a brevet major - McKinley was a Republican. First elected in 1896, he was re-elected in 1900. Six months after the swearing in, McKinley was shot - and died of the gangrene that set in as a result.
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In 1933, by the time this person was 32 years old, 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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