Background
Hugh Gregory Gallagher was born on October 18, 1932, in Palo Alto, California. He was the son of Hubert Randall and Luthera (Wakefield) Gallagher.
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Gallagher studied at Oxford University, where he received the equivalent of a master's degree in political science, philosophy and economics.
(This biography of Charles Edwardsen, Jr. (Etok), an Eskim...)
This biography of Charles Edwardsen, Jr. (Etok), an Eskimo radical, is the story of the struggle to protect Alaska Native land rights and way of life in the face of the relentless onslaught of Western culture.
https://www.amazon.com/Etok-Eskimo-Hugh-Gregory-Gallagher/dp/0918339596/?tag=2022091-20
1974
(This moving story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt s massive ...)
This moving story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt s massive disability and the intense efforts to conceal it from the public has been widely acknowledged as revising the understanding of Roosevelt s personality and decision-making process. It is an intensely personal view of FDR.
https://www.amazon.com/FDRs-Splendid-Deception-Roosevelts-Disability/dp/0918339502/?tag=2022091-20
1985
Hugh Gregory Gallagher was born on October 18, 1932, in Palo Alto, California. He was the son of Hubert Randall and Luthera (Wakefield) Gallagher.
In 1956, Gallagher received a Bachelor of Arts from Claremont Men’s College (now Claremont College), he also studied at Oxford University, where he received the equivalent of a master's degree in political science, philosophy and economics.
Beginning in 1959, Gallagher spent almost a decade in Washington, D.C., holding posts that linked him to democratic Senators John A. Carroll and E. L. Bartlett, as well as to President Lyndon Johnson. Gallagher’s work with Carroll and Bartlett “not only trained him in the methods of politics but produced many improvements for the disabled,” applauded William Beatty in a Book list review highly recommending Gallagher’s autobiographical Black Bird Fly Away: Disabled in an Able-Bodied World. The Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 is often referred to as the precursor to 1990s monumental Americans with Disabilities Act.
After Gallagher stopped working for Senator Bartlett, his 1969 Advise and Obstruct: The Role of the United States Senate in Foreign Policy Decision was published. In a later work, Gallagher addressed another major national negotiation involving the U.S. government. Gallagher’s 1974 publication, Etok: A Story of Eskimo Power, was described by Jean Mercier in Publishers Weekly as “a grim, courageous and remarkable tale.” Etok addresses the unprecedented, large 1971 settlement between the U.S. government and the Eskimo Indians in Alaska.
Between the release of Advise and Obstruct and Etok, Gallagher was working as British Petroleum’s chief political officer in London and Washington, D.C. It was also during this time that depression became pervasive in his life, eventually leading to his resignation from British Petroleum. At the age of forty, Gallagher began his struggles with clinical depression, which became nearly totally disabling and led to a period of withdrawal lasting for about the last six years of the 1970s. In his 1998 autobiographical collection Black Bird Fly Away, Gallagher looks back on his experiences with depression and his polio-induced quadriplegia that struck him about twenty years earlier while he was a college student.
(This moving story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt s massive ...)
1985(This biography of Charles Edwardsen, Jr. (Etok), an Eskim...)
1974Quotations: "You always know when the pain has gotten to be too much. You simply pass out."
Around the age of twenty, Hugh Gregory Gallagher became a quadriplegic due to polio. This led Gallagher to participate in Georgia’s Warm Springs Polio Rehabilitation Center, an institution President Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) co-founded and which drew Gallagher’s attention to fellow polio sufferer Roosevelt and his experience with the disabling disease. Eventually Gallagher authored FDR’s Splendid Deception and became a member of the board of directors of the International Committee of Roosevelt Historians. Gallagher was also a member of the Society for Disability Studies and Cosmos Club.
From the onset of his polio-paralysis through the years leading into his clinical depression, Gallagher behaved like a “Super Crip” - a high achiever who copes with limitations by denying that they exist.
Quotes from others about the person
“As the person who conceived and wrote the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968, Gallagher played a pivotal role in the evolution of disability rights law and the disability rights movement,” recognized Fred Pelka’s The ABC-CLIO Companion to the Disability Rights Movement.