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Philena M Higgins 1919 - 1996

Philena M Higgins of Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY was born on May 31, 1919, and died at age 77 years old on December 23, 1996.

Philena M Higgins
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Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY 12901
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May 31, 1919
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December 23, 1996
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Philena M Higgins Philena Higgins (1919 - 1996)
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In 1919, in the year that Philena M Higgins was born, in January, Nebraska was the 36th state to ratify the 18th Amendment, making it the law of the land. The 18th Amendment established Prohibition - a law against the production, transport, and sale of alcohol. Private consumption and possession were not prohibited. Several months later, the Volstead Act was passed, creating laws to enforce the Amendment. Bootlegging and bathtub gin followed.
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In 1933, Philena was merely 14 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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