John Chafee
 John Chafee     ( politician) | |
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| Born | John Lester Hubbard Chafee 1922-10-22 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Died | 1999-10-24 (Age 77) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | • Yale University • Harvard University |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
| Parents | • Janet Melissa Hunter • John Sharpe Chafee |
| Children | Lincoln Chafee |
| Spouse | Virginia Coates |
| Member of | Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, Skull and Bones |
| Party | Republican |
John Lester Hubbard Chafee was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was Governor of Rhode Island, as the Secretary of the Navy, and as a United States Senator.
Background
Chafee was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a politically active family. He was the son of Janet Melissa (née Hunter) and John Sharpe Chafee.[1] His great-grandfather, Henry Lippitt, was governor of Rhode Island (1875–1877), and among his great-uncles were a Rhode Island governor, Charles Warren Lippitt, and United States Senator Henry Frederick Lippitt. His uncle, Zechariah Chafee, was a Harvard law professor, and a notable civil libertarian. His cousin was Frederick Lippitt, former House Minority Leader for the Rhode Island House of Representatives. Chafee was an Episcopalian.[2]
He had two daughters and four sons, one of whom is former Rhode Island Governor and former United States Senator Lincoln Chafee. One of his daughters, Tribbie, died following an accident at a horse show in October 1968 at the age of 14. His eldest child, John H. Chafee, is a UCLA alumnus.
Education
John Chafee graduated from Providence's Gordon School, in 1931 and then attended Providence Country Day School. In 1940, he graduated from Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts.[3]
Chafee was in his third year as an undergraduate at Yale University at the time of Pearl Harbor.[4] He interrupted his undergraduate studies and enlisted in the Marine Corps,[5] spending his 20th birthday fighting on the island of Guadalcanal from August 8 until November 1942. After receiving his commission as a second lieutenant, he fought in the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945.
Following the war, he received degrees from Yale University in 1947 and Harvard Law School in 1950. At Yale, he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon (Phi chapter) and Skull and Bones fraternities. In 1951, he was recalled to active service to be a Marine rifle company commander during the Korean War.[6]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1979 | 27 April 1979 | 29 April 1979 | Austria Baden Clubhotel Schloss Weikersdorf | 27th Bilderberg, 95 guests, Austria |
| Bilderberg/1986 | 25 April 1986 | 27 April 1986 | Scotland Gleneagles Hotel | The 34th Bilderberg, 109 participants |
| Bilderberg/1991 | 6 June 1991 | 9 June 1991 | Germany Baden-Baden Steigenberger Hotel Badischer Hof | The 39th Bilderberg, 114 guests |
| Bilderberg/1992 | 21 May 1992 | 24 May 1992 | France Royal Club Evian Evian-les-Bains | The 40th Bilderberg. It had 121 participants. |
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110810204809/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/senators/chafee.htm
- ↑ https://episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=93146
- ↑ http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%20Disk3/Watertown%20Times/Watertown%20NY%20Daily%20Times%201967%20Oct%20Grayscale.pdf/Watertown%20NY%20Daily%20Times%201967%20Oct%20Grayscale%20-%200151.pdf
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20000125231413/http://www1.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/july-dec99/chafee_10-25.html
- ↑ http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/10/30/chafee.funeral.02/index.html
- ↑ Brady The Scariest Place in the World, p. 60.
