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Rita J Spain 1916 - 1997

Rita J Spain of Oak Park, Cook County, IL was born on April 11, 1916, and died at age 81 years old on May 13, 1997.
Rita J Spain
Oak Park, Cook County, IL 60304
April 11, 1916
May 13, 1997
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  • 04/11
    1916

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    April 11, 1916
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  • 05/13
    1997

    Death

    May 13, 1997
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    Rita J Spain lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1916, in the year that Rita J Spain was born, suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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In 1922, Rita was only 6 years old when on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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