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Colson is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Audrey Butt Colson (born 1926), British social anthropologist * Bonzie Colson (born 1996), American basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League * Charles Colson (1931–2012), U.S. counsel for Richard Nixon and (later) evangelical Christian leader; father of Emily Colson * Christian Colson (born 1968), British film producer * Clément Colson (1853–1939), French economist * David Grant Colson (1861–1904), U.S. politician from Kentucky * Elizabeth Colson (1917-2016), U.S. social anthropologist * Eugene Colson ( during WWII), Belgian resistance fighter * Ethalinda Colson (stage name, Kathryn Adams; 1893–1959), U.S. silent film actress * F. D. Colson (died 1958), U.S. rower, rowing coach, and lawyer * Gail Colson (born ?), British music manager * Gary Colson (born 1934), U.S. basketball coach * Greg Colson (born 1956), U.S. artist known for wall sculpt ...
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Charles Colson
Charles Wendell Colson (October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012), generally referred to as Chuck Colson, was an American attorney and political advisor who 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 also for pleading 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 worl ...
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Jaime Colson
Jaime Antonio Gumercindo González Colson (13 January 190120 November 1975) was a People of the Dominican Republic, Dominican modernism, modernist painter, writer, and playwright born in Tubagua, Puerto Plata Province, Puerto Plata in 1901. He is remembered as one of the most important Dominican artists of the 20th century, and as one of the leading figures of the modernist movement in 20th century Dominican art, along with Yoryi Morel, Darío Suro, Dario Suro, and Celeste Woss y Gil. His travels to Spain and France in the early 20th century led to his experimenting with Cubism, Surrealism and other avant-garde styles.Danilo de los Santos. Memoria de la Pintura Dominicana. (Colección Centenario Grupo León Jimenes) 8v: vol 2. Grupo León Jimenes. Santo Domingo, 2003. pg 300 He struck up friendships with artists like Maruja Mallo, Rafael Barradas and Salvador Dalí in Spain, and in Paris, came to know Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, masters of the cubist school that influenced ...
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Bonzie Colson
Bonzie Alexander Colson II (born January 12, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the University of Notre Dame. Early development Colson, the son of a former Rhode Island player who went into college coaching, played high school basketball in that state at St. Andrew's School in Barrington, as well as AAU basketball with Boston Area Basketball Club. He developed as a pure post player, but was abnormally short for the position—during a basketball camp in summer 2013, he measured at 6' 4.5" (1.93 m) in shoes. Despite his physical stature, advanced statistics showed him to be unusually effective in the frontcourt; in July 2013, Colson had the top player efficiency rating (PER) among frontcourt players in Nike's Elite Youth Basketball League. While Colson was largely ignored by major programs as a frontcourt prospect, Notre Dame assistant Martin I ...
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Greg Colson
Greg Colson (born April 23, 1956) is an American artist best known for works that straddle the line between painting and sculpture that address concepts of efficiency and order. Using scavenged materials, Colson allows the physicality of his makeshift constructions to intrude on the precise systems he paints or draws upon their surfaces - striking a balance between subject and context, image and support, order and chaos. Biography Colson was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Bakersfield, California, in the nearby suburb of Oildale with his parents and two brothers Doug and Jeff, who is also an artist. His father Lewis Colson was a social worker but was also a skilled mechanic and inventive with makeshift repairs and adapting materials to new uses – which inspired his son's appreciation of the ordinary and the rejected. The industrial environment of the Bakersfield/Oildale area, and its accompanying attitudes and outlook, also affected Colson – particularly in its ...
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Colson Whitehead
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of eight novels, including his 1999 debut work '' The Intuitionist''; '' The Underground Railroad'' (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020 for '' The Nickel Boys''. He has also published two books of non-fiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Genius Grant. Life Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead was born in New York City on November 6, 1969, and grew up in Manhattan. He is one of four children of successful entrepreneur parents who owned an executive recruiting firm. As a child in Manhattan, Whitehead went by his first name Arch. He later switched to Chipp, before switching to Colson. He attended Trinity School in Manhattan and graduated from Harvard University in 1991. In college, he became friends with poet Kevin Young. Early in his career, Whitehead lived in Fort Gr ...
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Audrey Butt Colson
Audrey Joan Butt Colson (born 15 March 1926), is a social anthropologist with a particular interest in the Amerindian peoples of Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela. She was, together with Peter Rivière, one of the pioneers of Amazonian anthropology at the University of Oxford. Part of the permanent endowment of the University of Oxford is a fund to support South American Amerindian Studies known as the Butt Colson Amerindian Studies Bequest. Oxford University Audrey Butt studied at Oxford under Edward Evans-Pritchard, and carried out fieldwork among the Akawaio people in Guyana in 1951-1952 and in 1957, later broadening her study to include other Pemon and Kapon groups in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. She obtained the Diploma in Ethnology in 1949, the B.Litt. degree in 1950, and the D.Phil. in 1955. She then spent a year in Spain to learn Spanish in preparation for further fieldwork in South America. In 1956 she lectured on South American societies at Oxford's Department of Ethnolo ...
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David Grant Colson
David Grant Colson (April 1, 1861 – September 27, 1904) was an American politician from the State of Kentucky who served as a U.S. Representative from Kentucky's 11th congressional district. He previously served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and as the mayor of Middlesboro. Biography Colson was born in Yellow Creek (now Middlesboro, Kentucky), Knox (now Bell) County, Kentucky. He was the seventh of eleven children. Colson attended the common schools and the academies at Tazewell and Mossy Creek, Tennessee. He studied law at the University of Kentucky at Lexington in 1879 and 1880. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Pineville. Political career Colson, a Republican, served as a state representative in 1887 and 1888, representing Bell, Harlan, Perry, and Leslie Counties, and again in 1902. He was the Republican nominee for State Treasurer in 1889. He served as mayor of Middlesboro in 1893-1895. Colson was elected a US Representative in 1894 an ...
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Elizabeth Colson
Elizabeth Florence Colson (June 15, 1917 – August 3, 2016) was an American social anthropologist and professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She was best known for the classic long-term study of the Tonga people of the Gwembe Valley in Zambia and Zimbabwe, which she began in 1956 with Thayer Scudder, 11 years after she obtained her doctorate and while Scudder was a second-year graduate student. Dr. Colson focused her research on the consequences of forced resettlement on culture and social organization, the effects of economic pressure on familial relationships, rituals, religious life, and even drinking patterns. Biography Colson was born in Hewitt, Minnesota on June 15, 1917. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in anthropology from the University of Minnesota and her Ph.D in Social Anthropology in 1945 from Radcliffe College. Colson received a fellowship from the American Association of University Women in 1942–1943. She ...
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Ted Colson
Edmund Albert "Ted" Colson (3 June 1881 – 27 February 1950), bushman, pastoralist and pioneer was born in South Australia near Quorn at the southern end of the Flinders Ranges. He achieved recognition as the first person of European descent to cross the Simpson Desert. Career His father was a farmer of Swedish descent and Colson was the first of eight children. Prior to his 15th birthday in 1896, Colson and his father travelled by sea to Esperance, Western Australia, then walked 150 miles to the gold-rush district of Norseman. During the next ten years, young Colson gained experience in prospecting, mining, timberwork and engine driving. In 1904 he married Alice Jane Horne in Kalgoorlie and they remained married until he died. They moved to Victoria in 1917 for construction work, and in 1926 he started his own transport business from Healesville to Melbourne. Moving again in 1927 they went to South Australia to work on a new railway line between Oodnadatta and Alice ...
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Jeff Colson
Jeff Colson (born 1957) is an American artist. Colson was born in Santa Ana, California in 1957. He uses diverse materials in painted and sculpted works that reflect both pop and conceptual art. His work often employs ''trompe l’oeil'' effects, in which one material creates the effect of a very different material. His work has been exhibited in private and public spaces, and belongs to collections in the United States, Europe, and Mexico. In 2012 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. His brother is artist Greg Colson. Solo exhibitions Colson had solo exhibitions at Maloney Fine Art, Los Angeles in 2015 and 2014. In a ''Los Angeles Times'' review of former show, Leah Ollman called Colson a "wizard at trompe l’oeil illusion" and "canny subversion," describing his sculpture in wood, resin, paint and urethane, ''Stacks'' (2015), as "an absurdist ode to paper";Leah Ollman"Review: Jeff Colson, wizard of illusion, at Maloney Fine Art" ''Los Ange ...
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Kevin Colson
Kevin Colson (28 August 1937 – 18 April 2018) was an Australian stage, film and television actor. He is known for playing Sir George Dillingham in the musical ''Aspects of Love'', for which he received a Tony nomination, and Cliff in the original London production of ''Cabaret'' opposite Judi Dench. Colson was a television presenter and stage actor in Sydney before moving to London. He left acting for 16 years from 1969, but returned to the stage in 1985. Career Early career Colson began his career as a television announcer on a religious program on Sundays, and then became the Seven Network station compère and hosted '' Room for Two'' in 1959. His first theatre role was as a rancher in ''The Pleasure of His Company'' at the Theatre Royal in 1960, and he had a part in ''The Glass Menagerie'' for the Elizabethan Theatre Trust in Sydney in 1961. He starred in French musical '' Irma La Douce'' with Judy Bruce from May 1961 as her young boyfriend. It was his first professional mu ...
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Sean Colson
Sean Tyree Colson (born July 1, 1975) is an American former professional basketball player. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At a height of 6'0" (1.83 m) tall, he played at the point guard position. College career Colson attended the University of Rhode Island, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Hagerstown Junior College. Professional playing career Colson split the 2000–01 National Basketball Association season with the Atlanta Hawks and Houston Rockets. Colson also played with the Dodge City Legend of the USBL, the Grand Rapids Hoops of the CBA and in Italy, France, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Lebanon, Kuwait, and Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ....
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