When Ruby Lee Burleson was born on 10 October 1914, in Decatur, Morgan, Alabama, United States, her father, Silvanus Cummings Burleson, was 57 and her mother, Mary Ellen Crabtree, was 36. She married Byron Corneel Gibson on 24 December 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States. She lived in Election Precinct 13 Flint, Morgan, Alabama, United States in 1920 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930. She died on 18 May 1993, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Larkin Sunset Lawn Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
English (Durham): habitational name, perhaps from a metathesized form of Brusselton (Durham) or possibly an altered form of Burniston in Pickering Lythe (North Yorkshire). See Burnison .
History: Aaron Burleson emigrated from England to NC in 1726.
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