biography
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Colson, Charles Wendell
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known as Chuck Colson
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| lived:
| (1931– )
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| biography:
| Lawyer and government official, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Brown University (1953) and George Washington University (1957), later serving as an administrative assistant in the US Senate (1956–61) and as partner in a law firm (1961–69). Appointed Special Counsel to President Nixon (1969–73), he was convicted of a Watergate-related offence and served several months in prison (1974). Around this time he converted to Christianity and published a best-selling autobiography, Born Again, using the royalties to found Prison Fellowship (1976), an outreach organization assisting prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims, and affected families. It is now the largest prison outreach programme in the world, operating an international network of prison ministries in nearly 60 countries. In 1993 he received the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion and donated the $1 million prize money to Prison Fellowship. |
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