Charles Colson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles Colson

Lawyer, public servant, Christian advocate

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1931

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 21-Apr-2012

Profession: writer, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Charles Colson

  • Charles Wendell Colson (October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012), generally referred to as Chuck Colson, served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970.
  • Once known as President Nixon's "hatchet man", Colson gained notoriety at the height of the Watergate scandal, for being named as one of the Watergate Seven, and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for attempting to defame Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg.
  • In 1974 he served seven months in the federal Maxwell Prison in Alabama, as the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges.Colson became an evangelical Christian in 1973.
  • His mid-life religious conversion sparked a radical life change that led to the founding of his non-profit ministry Prison Fellowship and, three years later, Prison Fellowship International, to a focus on Christian worldview teaching and training around the world.
  • Colson was also a public speaker and the author of more than 30 books.
  • He was the founder and chairman of The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, which is "a research, study, and networking center for growing in a Christian worldview", and includes Colson's daily radio commentary, BreakPoint, heard on more than 1,400 outlets across the United States (and continues to be broadcast with an alternating panel from the Colson Center).Colson was a principal signer of the 1994 Evangelicals and Catholics Together ecumenical document signed by leading Evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholic leaders in the United States. Colson received 15 honorary doctorates, and in 1993 was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, the world's largest annual award (over US$1 million) in the field of religion, given to a person who "has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension".
  • He donated this prize to further the work of Prison Fellowship, as he did all his speaking fees and royalties.
  • In 2008, he was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President George W.
  • Bush.

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