Earle Wheeler – the American four-star general who served as the 6th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the 21st Chief of Staff of the Army – was born on this day – January 13, 1908 – in Washington, D.C.
He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy and the Command and General Staff College.
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Hugh Shelton – the American four-star general who served as the 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Special Operations Command – was born on this day – January 2, 1942 – in Tarboro, North Carolina.
He is a graduate of North Carolina State University, Auburn University, and the Air War College.
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William J. Crowe – the American four-star admiral who served as the 11th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom – was born on this day – January 2, 1925 – in La Grange, Kentucky.
He was a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Stanford University, and Princeton University.
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George C. Marshall – the American statesman and Army general – was born on this day – December 31, 1880 – in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
He was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute.
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Jonathan Zittrain – the American Internet law professor at Harvard – was born on December 24, 1969 – in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He is a graduate of both Yale University and Harvard University.
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Peter Tuchman – the American stock trader – was born on this day – December 23, 1957 – in New York City.
He is a alumni of the University of Massachusetts.
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Joseph Dunford – the American four-star general who served as the 19th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the 36th Commandant of the Marine Corps – was born on this day – December 8, 1955 – in Boston, Massachusetts.
He is a graduate of Saint Michael’s College, Georgetown University, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
General Dunford is a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.
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Lee J. Jussim — the American academic who leads the Social Perception Laboratory at Rutgers University — was born on this day — December 2, 1955 — in New York City.
He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan.
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Steve Bannon – the former investment banker and American Rasputin – was born on this day – November 27, 1953 – in Norfolk, Virgina.
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Patrick Jake O’Rourke — the American satirist who wrote 22 books,including Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance – was born on this day — November 14, 1947 — in Toledo, Ohio.
Mr O’Rourke is said to have disliked the punk band Liquid Pig, despite – or perhaps because – it orginated in Toledo, Ohio, the city of his birth. He earned an undergraduate degree from Miami University and holds a Master of Arts in English at Johns Hopkins University.
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