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role in U.S. history. In United States: The second New Deal and the Supreme Court. Many older people supported Francis E. Townsend’s plan to provide \$200 per month for everyone over age 60.
SSA History Archives. Dr. Francis E. Townsend (right), confers with Sheridan Downey, U.S. Senator. from California and Upton Sinclair's running mate in the 1934 gubernatorial campaign. U.S. Office of War Information photo, National Archives. Townsend supporters rally in Columbus, Kansas in May 1936.
Francis Everitt Townsend (1867-1960), American physician, author, and political organizer, crusaded for pensions for the elderly. Francis Townsend was born into a poor farm family near Fairbury, II., on Jan. 13, 1867. The family moved to Nebraska, where Francis attended Franklin Academy.
Francis Everett Townsend ( / ˈtaʊnzənd /; January 13, 1867 – September 1, 1960) was an American physician and political activist in California. In 1933, he devised an old-age pension scheme to help alleviate the Great Depression.
May 21, 2018 · The Townsend Plan was a scheme of old-age pensions devised by Dr. Francis E. Townsend in an effort to alleviate the desperate economic circumstances of the elderly in America and to stimulate a general economic recovery during the Great Depression. The Townsend Plan was one of many utopian social panaceas that emerged during the early 1930s ...
The Townsend Plan, officially the Old-Age Revolving Pensions (OARP) plan, was a September 1933 proposal by California physician Francis Townsend for an old-age pension in response to the Great Depression, leading to a social and political movement.
Aug 24, 2016 · Francis Everett Townsend [1] (toun´zənd), 1867–1960, American reformer, leader of an old-age pension movement, b. Fairbury, Ill., grad. Univ. of Nebraska medical school, 1903. He practiced medicine in several Western states before he settled (1919) at Long Beach [2], Calif.
