• Thumbnail for Charles A. Gillespie Jr.
    Charles Anthony Gillespie Jr. (March 22, 1935 – March 7, 2008) was a United States career diplomat who helped to open the first United States Embassy in...
    9 KB (660 words) - 14:52, 8 August 2024
  • Charles Gillespie (1883–1964), New Zealand rugby union player and soldier Charles A. Gillespie Jr. (1935–2008), American diplomat Charlie Gillespie (born...
    10 KB (1,086 words) - 15:33, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for National War College
    National War College (category Articles using NRISref without a reference number)
    United States Army --F-- John D. Feeley, U.S. ambassador --G-- Charles A. Gillespie Jr., U.S. ambassador to Colombia Alan L. Gropman, military officer...
    16 KB (1,674 words) - 11:10, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Armero tragedy
    in aid (equivalent to $2.8 million today), and U.S. Ambassador Charles A. Gillespie, Jr. donated an initial $25,000 to Colombian disaster assistance institutions...
    59 KB (6,607 words) - 08:52, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dizzy Gillespie 1964 presidential campaign
    The Dizzy Gillespie 1964 presidential campaign was a political campaign of jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie to run for president of the United States in 1964...
    7 KB (727 words) - 13:59, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dizzy Gillespie
    John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/ gil-ESP-ee; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator...
    52 KB (5,493 words) - 04:33, 24 October 2024
  • Fredericksburg, Karl Jr. changed his name to Charles Henry Nimitz. On December 15, 1847, Nimitz became one of the petitioners for creation of Gillespie County. He...
    9 KB (1,010 words) - 06:18, 7 September 2024
  • shortly after noon. President Bush announces the appointment of Charles A. Gillespie Jr. for Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs...
    174 KB (20,703 words) - 18:22, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of ambassadors of the United States to Colombia
    The following is a list of ambassadors of the United States, or other chiefs of mission, to Colombia and its predecessor states. The title given by the...
    15 KB (231 words) - 14:15, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lewis Arthur Tambs
    Costa Rica from 1985–1987. Tambs was born in San Diego, California. "Lewis A Tambs". Arizona Republic. October 24, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2018. "Nomination...
    3 KB (93 words) - 21:15, 28 March 2022
  • cancer. David Gale, 86, American mathematician, heart attack. Charles A. Gillespie, Jr., 72, American diplomat, Ambassador to Colombia and Chile, cancer...
    114 KB (8,624 words) - 09:14, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harry G. Barnes Jr.
    Barnes Jr. (June 5, 1926 – August 9, 2012) was an American diplomat, known for his role in ending the government of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. A former...
    8 KB (613 words) - 21:16, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas E. McNamara
    with a B.A. in 1962. He then attended the University of Notre Dame, receiving an M.A. In 1965, McNamara joined the United States Foreign Service. As a diplomat...
    6 KB (476 words) - 00:13, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charlie Parker
    Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. Parker...
    56 KB (6,309 words) - 23:47, 24 October 2024
  • Texas. She grew up in Monett, Missouri, where she was a cheerleader. One of her grandfathers was a personal friend of Texas Congressman Clark W. Thompson...
    12 KB (765 words) - 05:31, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gillespie County, Texas
    Gillespie County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 26,725. The county seat...
    42 KB (3,699 words) - 13:50, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of ambassadors of the United States to Chile
    The following is a list of ambassadors that the United States has sent to Chile. The current title given by the United States State Department to this...
    11 KB (98 words) - 15:11, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles I of England
    Gillespie, Raymond (2006), Seventeenth Century Ireland (3rd ed.), Dublin: Gill & McMillon, ISBN 978-0-7171-3946-0 Gregg, Pauline (1981), King Charles...
    118 KB (14,452 words) - 15:10, 17 October 2024
  • diplomacy and U.S. foreign policy at the University of Notre Dame. He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy. Curtis Kamman married the former...
    6 KB (266 words) - 03:59, 6 August 2023
  • David B. Gillespie (April 5, 1774 – September 28, 1829) was an American land surveyor and politician. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons...
    20 KB (1,980 words) - 05:42, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ray Charles
    the Rocking Chair, Charles also arranged songs for other artists, including Cole Porter's "Ghost of a Chance" and Dizzy Gillespie's "Emanon". After the...
    91 KB (9,107 words) - 18:56, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sammy Davis Jr.
    Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, actor, comedian and dancer. At age two, Davis began his career in Vaudeville...
    81 KB (8,134 words) - 07:17, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maya Angelou
    according to Gillespie, a large group of friends and extended family. Angelou's mother Vivian Baxter died in 1991 and her brother Bailey Johnson Jr., died in...
    102 KB (10,948 words) - 02:42, 18 October 2024
  • Charles Adams Claverie (August 28, 1949 – October 7, 2005), known by stage names Charlie Hamburger, Charlie Kennedy and Charles Rocket, was an American...
    20 KB (1,406 words) - 01:32, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wrede School (Gillespie County, Texas)
    During the Civil War, Wrede served in the Gillespie Rifles, Thirty-first Brigade, under Captain Charles H. Nimitz, grandfather of Fleet Admiral Chester...
    6 KB (635 words) - 15:15, 11 February 2021
  • of the same title that starred Carroll O'Connor as police chief Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as police detective Virgil Tibbs. The series was broadcast...
    61 KB (6,082 words) - 05:44, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Episcopal Diocese of the Great Lakes
    Michigan. George D. Gillespie (1875–1909) John N. McCormick (1909–1937) Lewis Bliss Whittemore (1937–1953) Dudley B. McNeil (1953–1959) Charles E. Bennison Sr...
    4 KB (255 words) - 01:20, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Koch
    Interviewed by Nick Gillespie. Retrieved November 27, 2020. And so for many years I've been saying it. Okay, the temperature's been rising for over a century now...
    57 KB (5,394 words) - 19:16, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Mingus
    Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author. A major proponent...
    48 KB (5,767 words) - 08:41, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2017 Virginia gubernatorial election
    election on November 7, 2017, Northam defeated Republican Gillespie, winning by the largest margin for a Democrat since 1985. Northam assumed office as the 73rd...
    200 KB (8,406 words) - 16:04, 1 October 2024