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John Gardner
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Southern conservative, balanced out the ticket, FDR's vice president
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Anton Cermeck
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Mayor of Chicago, was assassinated sitting next to FDR
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Frances Perkin
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First woman to be in the presidents cabinet
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Father Conkline
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Blamed the depression on bad banking, wanted to nationalize banks, became so anti-semitic that the Catholic church took away his radio broadcasting
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Robert C. Weaver
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First African American to be in the presidents cabinet
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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Member of the Black Brain Trust
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Marian Anderson
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African American opera singer, was arranged by Elanore Roosevelt to sing in front of the Lincoln Memorial
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Huey P. Long
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Developed the idea of the Share the Wealth Program to take money from the rich and give it to the poor, was a demagogue
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Carl Weiss
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Assassinated Huey Long, was shot to death by Long's body guards
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Dr. Francis Townsend
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Wanted the government to every month give $200 to senior citizens and they had to spend it to recieve another $200 next month, failed because Social Security was invented
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