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Dodds, Linda S.

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Linda Sue Dodds, nee Paisley, was born in Astoria, Oregon, in 1945. A short time later, her family moved to the Eugene, Oregon, area. She studied journalism at the University of Oregon. In the late 1970s, she continued her college education at Portland State University and earned a bachelor's degree. She also co-authored a book on the history of Cedar Mill, Oregon, where she resided. In 1979, she became the oral historian at the Oregon Historical Society. After leaving the historical society in 1982, she continued to do contract work as a historian, and also co-authored additional history books. In the 1990s, she earned a master's degree from Oregon State University.

She married twice, first to John Stuart Brody, with whom she had two children, in 1966. She worked professionally under the name Linda S. Brody until 1982, when she married Gordon B. Dodds.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Dodds in her interview.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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  • 1882-1945

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York, in 1882. He served as governor of New York from 1929 to 1932, and as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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  • 1917-1963

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1917. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940 with a bachelor of arts degree in government. He served in the U.S. Navy as a patrol torpedo boat commander in the Pacific theater during World War II. After the war, he worked briefly as a reporter for Hearst Newspapers. He was a member of the Democratic Party and represented the 11th district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. In 1952, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, and the next year he and Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Bouvier were married. Kennedy was elected the 35th president of the United States in 1960. He was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963.

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