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Manchester, William Raymond

Born: 1922 AD
Died: 2004 AD, at 82 years of age.

Nationality: American
Categories: Biographers

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1922 - Born on April 1st in Attleboro, Massachusetts.

1947 - An associate editor in The Baltimore Sun.

1948 - Married to Julia Brown Marshall on March 27th.

1959-1983 - Wrote the biographies, A Rockefeller Family Portrait, American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur and The Last Lion.

2001 - Recipient of the National Humanities Medal.

2004 - Died of cancer on June 1st in Middletown, Connecticut.





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