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Rowena Williams 1916 - 1987

Rowena Williams of Visalia, Tulare County, California was born on May 28, 1916, and died at age 71 years old in May 1987.
Rowena Williams
Visalia, Tulare County, California 93277
May 28, 1916
May 1987
Female
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Rowena Williams' History: 1916 - 1987

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  • 05/28
    1916

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    May 28, 1916
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  • 05/dd
    1987

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    May 1987
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    Rowena Williams lived exactly as long as the average family member when died at the age of 70.
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In 1916, in the year that Rowena Williams 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 1933, Rowena was 17 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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