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Walter Polk 1913 - 2007

Walter Polk of Lafayette, Lafayette County, LA was born on January 24, 1913, and died at age 94 years old on December 7, 2007.
Walter Polk
Lafayette, Lafayette County, LA 70508
January 24, 1913
December 7, 2007
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Walter Polk's History: 1913 - 2007

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  • 01/24
    1913

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    January 24, 1913
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  • 12/7
    2007

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    December 7, 2007
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    Walter Polk lived 23 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 94.
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In 1913, in the year that Walter Polk was born, Woodrow Wilson became the 28th President of the United States in March. Previously the Governor of New Jersey and President of Princeton University, he was the first Southerner to serve as President since Zachary Taylor, over 60 years previous. A Democrat, he led the U.S. during World War I and championed the League of Nations.
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In 1933, by the time he was 20 years old, 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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