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Rachel W Cortelyou 1914 - 1999

Rachel W Cortelyou of Bellingham, Whatcom County, WA was born on July 5, 1914, and died at age 84 years old on March 10, 1999.
Rachel W Cortelyou
Bellingham, Whatcom County, WA 98225
July 5, 1914
March 10, 1999
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  • 07/5
    1914

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    July 5, 1914
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  • 03/10
    1999

    Death

    March 10, 1999
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    Rachel W Cortelyou lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1914, in the year that Rachel W Cortelyou was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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In 1950, when she was 36 years old, in February, Joe McCarthy gave a speech alleging that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who worked in the State Department. He went on to chair a committee that investigated not only the State Department but also the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the Voice of America, and the U.S. Army for communist spies - until he was condemned by the U.S. Senate in 1954.
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