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Wilbur D Downing 1924 - 2009

Wilbur D Downing of Brandon, Rankin County, MS was born on August 2, 1924, and died at age 85 years old on August 9, 2009.
Wilbur D Downing
Brandon, Rankin County, MS 39047
August 2, 1924
August 9, 2009
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    1924

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    August 2, 1924
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  • 08/9
    2009

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    August 9, 2009
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    Wilbur D Downing lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1924, in the year that Wilbur D Downing was born, J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.
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In 1933, by the time he was merely 9 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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