When Dorris Frank West was born on 24 November 1885, in Defeated, Smith, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Claiborne West, was 29 and his mother, Aretha Tennessee Robinson, was 27. He married Delia Jerma Martin on 15 May 1909, in Smith, Henderson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1930 and Civil District 2, Smith, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 7 July 1967, in Carthage, Smith, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Defeated, Smith, Tennessee, United States.
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The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
English and German: from Middle English, Middle High German west ‘west’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement, or a habitational name for someone who had migrated from further west.
Americanized form of Finnish Vesterinen: from the personal name Vesteri (a short form of Sylvester ) + the surname suffix -nen.
History: This name was brought to North America independently by many bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Thomas West, 12th Baron De La Warre, was captain general of Virginia in 1610–11. The state of DE is named for him. One of the earliest permanent settlers was Francis West (1606–92), who came to Duxbury, MA, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in or before 1638.
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