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Pressley Garrett 1927 - 1982

Pressley Garrett was born on March 4, 1927, and died at age 55 years old in June 1982. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Pressley Garrett.
Pressley Garrett
March 4, 1927
June 1982
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Pressley Garrett's History: 1927 - 1982

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  • 03/4
    1927

    Birthday

    March 4, 1927
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  • 06/dd
    1982

    Death

    June 1982
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Pressley Garrett lived 16 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 55.
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In 1927, in the year that Pressley Garrett was born, the first "talkie" (a movie with music, songs, and talking), The Jazz Singer, was released. Al Jolson starred as a cantor's son who instead of following in his father's footsteps as expected, becomes a singer of popular songs. Banished by his father, they reconcile on his father's deathbed. It was a tear-jerker and audiences went wild - especially when they heard the songs. Thus begun the demise of silent films and the rise of "talkies".
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In 1933, at the age of just 6 years old, Pressley was alive 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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