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Oct 19, 2021 · Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications. In an announcement on social media Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. He was 84.
Oct 18, 2021 · Born in Harlem of Jamaican parents, he grew up in the South Bronx and graduated from City College of New York, joining the Army through the R.O.T.C. Starting as a young second lieutenant...
Colin Powell. Powell's parents, Luther and Maud Powell, were Jamaican immigrants who lived in the South Bronx. After attending the New York City public schools, Powell enrolled in the City College of New York (CCNY), where he earned a bachelor's degree in geology and participated in ROTC.
- Early Life and Education
- Early Military Career
- Vietnam War
- Post-Vietnam War
- Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Post-Military Career
- Secretary of State
- Post-Retirement Business and Political Activity
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Colin Powell was born on April 5, 1937, in the Harlem neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City. His Jamaican immigrant parents, Maud Arial McKoy and Luther Theophilus Powell, were both of mixed African and Scottish ancestry. Raised in the South Bronx, Powell graduated from Morris High School in 1954. He then attended the City College ...
While attending George Washington University, Powell participated in the military Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program. It was in the ROTC where Powell has said he “found himself,” stating of military life, “…I not only liked it, but I was pretty good at it.” After graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. ...
During his first of two tours in Vietnam, Powell served as an adviser to a South Vietnamese infantry battalion from December 1962 to November 1963. Suffering a foot wound while on patrol in an enemy-held area, he received a Purple Heart. After recovering, he completed the Infantry Officer Advanced Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was promoted t...
Colin Powell’s post-Vietnam military career led him to the world of politics. In 1972, he won a White House fellowship in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during the Richard Nixon administration. His work at OMB impressed Caspar Weinberger and Frank Carlucci, who would go on to serve as secretary of defense and national security adviser, r...
Powell began his final military assignment on October 1, 1989, when President George H. W. Bush appointed him as the nation’s 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff(JCS). At age 52, Powell became the youngest officer, the first African-American, and the first ROTC graduate to hold the highest military position in the Department of Defense. Duri...
Powell’s tenure as chairman of the JCS continued until he retired from the military on September 30, 1993. Upon his retirement, Powell was awarded a second Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton and named an honorary Knight Commander by England’s Queen Elizabeth II. In September 1994, President Clinton chose Powell to accompany for...
On December 16, 2000, Powell was nominated as secretary of state by President-elect George W. Bush. He was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn in as the 65th secretary of state on January 20, 2001. Secretary Powell played a key role in managing the United States’ relationship with its foreign partners in the global War on Terrorism. ...
Since his retirement from government service, Powell has remained active in both business and politics. In July 2005, he became a “strategic limited partner” in the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. In September 2006, Powell publicly sided with moderate Senate Republicans in criticizing the Bush administration’...
While stationed at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, Powell met Alma Vivian Johnson of Birmingham, Alabama. The couple married on August 25, 1962, and have three children—a son Michael, and daughters Linda and Annemarie. Linda Powell is a movie and Broadway actress and Michael Powell was the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 2001 to ...
“Colin Luther Powell.”U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.“Interview on CNN's Larry King Live.” U.S. Department of State (May 4, 2004).“Intervention in Haiti, 1994–1995.”U.S. Department of State. Office of the Historian.Stableford, Dylan (October 1, 2015). “Colin Powell slams Donald Trump’s immigration plan.”Yahoo! News.- Robert Longley
Oct 19, 2021 · As an American leader, Colin Powell’s credentials were impeccable: He was national security adviser, chairman of the Joint Chiefs and secretary of state. But his legacy as the first Black...
Oct 18, 2021 · Colin Powell, the first African-American to become US secretary of state, died today from Covid complications. The son of Jamaican immigrants, his success story was widely hailed as an example of...
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Oct 18, 2021 · The former secretary of state – who died on Oct. 18, 2021 at 84 as a result of COVID-19 complications – was a pioneer: the first Black national security advisor in U.S. history, the first Black...
