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The author was born December 19, 1941 in Butler County, Missouri and raised in a small farming community in Southeast Missouri, (Pemiscot County) commonly known as ‘The Bootheel”. He graduated from Cooter High School in 1959 and Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina in 1963. He earned a Masters Degree in History from the University of Texas, Arlington, Texas in 2005 and is currently enrolled in their Doctoral program.
His varied business career includes a four-year stint as a schoolteacher, ten years as an Aviation Underwriter for a leading Aviation Insurance company and twenty years as a Marine Insurance Consultant. He retired in 2001 from his own consulting firm.
He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and The General Society, Sons of the Revolution. He has qualified seven (7) ancestors as soldiers in the American Revolution as certified by these two hereditary societies
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