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Colin Powell was born on the 5th of April, 1937 in New York City. Colin was raised in the South Bronx. He is the son of Luther and Maud Powell.
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Colin Powell was born on the 5th of April, 1937 in New York City. Colin was raised in the South Bronx. He is the son of Luther and Maud Powell.
City University of New York and George Washington University.
Commander 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division 1976-1977. Executive Assistant to Secretary Department, of Energy 1979. Senior Mil. Assistant to Secretary Department, of Defense 1979-1981.
Assistant Division Commander 4th Infantry Division Fort Carson, Colorado 1981-1983. Mil. Assistant to Secretary of Defense 86. Assigned to United States V Corps, Europe 1986-1987.
National Security Adviser, White House, Washington 1987-1988. Commander in Chief US Forces, Fort McPherson, Ga. April-September 1989.
Chairman Jt. Chiefs of Staff since 1989. Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Air.
Powell was the youngest man and first African-American to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Powell was the first African-American Secretary of State.
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Episcopalian
Republican
Colin Powell’s 13 Rules of Life
It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
Get mad, and then get over it.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
It can be done!
Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
Check small things.
Share credit.
Remain calm. Be kind.
Have a vision. Be demanding.
Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Quotations:
"I [always] saw a great merit in the way my parents lived their life, and I never wished to displease them. I always wanted them to be proud of me. The worst days of my life were ... when I did something that disappointed my mother and my father."
"I was not a terribly good student. I did not read a great deal when I was a youngster. The streets were a greater attraction to me in New York than was the New York Public Library system, or staying in my room reading anything but comic books."
"[As a child] I read what I was required to read by the public school system of the City of New York, and children's books. But I didn't really become an avid reader until I was an adult."
"[My first role model] was sharp, quick, disciplined, organized - qualities then invisible in me. ... I set out to remake myself in [his] mold."
"The American people [always] make their will known. That will is almost universally a will based on what's right, based on honesty, based on goodness. ... I am as corny as you can be on that subject. But it is the deepest element of my national faith."
[Asked how he as a soldier came to grips with realizing Vietnam was a mistake:]
Powell: "Well, we ... said: 'We will not allow ourselves to be broken. We will not allow ourselves to be abandoned by the people. We will demonstrate our worthiness. We will go back to our traditions. We will go back to our history, we'll gain inspiration from our past.' ... We just went back to basics: structure, discipline, patriotism, pride."
United States Army , USA
1958 - 1993
Powell is an extremely honorable man who respects his family and his personal values. It all started with his parents: "Integrity, kindness, and Godliness, they taught us, were right. Lying, violence, intolerance, crime, and drugs were wrong and, even worse than wrong, in my family, they were shameful". Powell is not only an important figure in the military and government; he is also active in the community. His efforts to help the youth of the country understand society assist in the proper education of young children. His actions are perfect examples of checking your priorities and finding out what's really important in life. Powell constantly illustrates his well-rounded character, proving, without trying, that he is a man to be respected.
charity, restoring old classic automobiles
Married Alma V. Johnson in 1962.
Came to the United States in the early 1920s. Died in 1980.
Came to the United States in the early 1920s. Died in 1984.
She's five-and-a-half years older Colin.
Alma J. Powell is one of the nation’s most longstanding advocates for children and youth. A successful author and speaker, Mrs. Powell has helped advance the cause of young people in need for more than four decades. As chair of the Board of Directors for America’s Promise Alliance, Mrs. Powell is helping lead the 350+ partner network’s efforts to improve the lives of young people by connecting more of them with the resources essential for success. She also helps guide its GradNation Campaign, an initiative to raise the nation’s high school graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020.
In addition to her role with America’s Promise, Mrs. Powell sits on the boards of several educational, cultural, charitable and civic organizations including Vice Chair of the Board of Directors’ Committee of Community & Friends for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the YouthBuild USA Advisory Board. She is also honorary chair of the DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative (DCPNI). DCPNI is one of 57 Promise Neighborhoods across the United States selected by the Department of Education to develop a cradle to career pipeline for children to ensure that they obtain a quality education, graduate from college or a vocational school, and grow up to have successful careers and communities.
Mrs. Powell was a member of President Barack Obama’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities from 2010 to 2012 and served as the chairman of the National Council of the Best Friends Foundation from 1989 to 2000. She has also chaired the advisory board for Civic Change, Inc.
Mrs. Powell is the recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Emerson College, an Honorary Doctor of Humanities from Shenandoah University and the Civic Change Award from the Pew Partnership for Civic Change. She has also been honored by Washingtonian magazine as Washingtonian of the Year and is the recipient of the Leadership Award from the Women’s Center in Virginia, the Edward A. Bouchet Legacy Award from Howard University and a 2009 Inspire Award Honoree by AARP The Magazine. Mrs. Powell is the author of two children’s books, My Little Wagon and America’s Promise, which were published in 2003 with great success.
Mrs. Powell was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and went on to study speech pathology and audiology at Emerson College in Boston. She worked as the staff audiologist for the Boston Guild for the Hard of Hearing.
Alma and Colin Powell were married in 1962. Mrs. Powell spent the next 33 years raising a family and accompanying her husband on his various military assignments in the United States and overseas. While her husband was stationed at the Pentagon, she served as the Army liaison to the National Red Cross as part of a team of volunteer consultants from the military services. During Gen. Powell’s tenure as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, she was the Advisor to the Red Cross of the Military District of Washington. Most recently, during her husband’s tenure as the 65th Secretary of State, Mrs. Powell served as the honorary president of the Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide. She also sat on the advisory board of the Hospitality and Information Service and was an honorary member of the Department of State Fine Arts Committee.
Michael K. Powell, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2001 to 2005 and a member of the FCC for eight years, began his tenure as President & CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) on April 25, 2011.
Powell was nominated as a member of the FCC by President Bill Clinton and sworn in on November 3, 1997. He was designated by President George W. Bush as FCC Chairman in January 2001, serving in that role until April 2005.
During Powell’s tenure at the FCC, the Commission oversaw tremendous change and marketplace growth in the telecommunications sector. Powell worked to bring FCC regulations into the 21st Century and to recognize the move of voice, video, and data technologies away from limited analog platforms to powerful digital applications that bring more value to the public. He focused on initiatives to encourage market-driven solutions that promote consumer interests. He also supported new methods of deploying advanced services through technologies that would expand affordable broadband options to all Americans regardless of their geography.
Prior to his tenure at the FCC, Powell served as the Chief of Staff of the Antitrust Division in the Department of Justice where he advised the Assistant Attorney General on substantive antitrust matters, including policy development, criminal and civil investigations, and mergers. He also served as an associate in the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers LLP and clerked for the Honorable Harry T. Edwards, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Before his legal career, Powell served as a policy advisor to the Secretary of Defense. His experience also includes military service as an armored cavalry officer in the United States Army.
Powell serves on a number of non-profit boards, including the Mayo Clinic, the Aspen Institute and America’s Promise, where he co-chairs Grad Nation, an effort to end the high school dropout crisis. Prior to joining NCTA, he served for two years as the co-chairman of Broadband for America, a coalition of more than 300 companies dedicated to expanding the discussion of Broadband for America. Powell also has served as the Rector of the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary.
Powell graduated from the College of William and Mary with a degree in Government and earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
Born in 1966.
Born in 1970.
