1. Charles Peters was the founder and editor-in-chief of the Washington Monthly magazine and the author of We Do Our Part: Toward A Fairer and More Equal America.
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Charles Peters attended public schools, graduating from Charleston High School in 1944.
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Charles Peters enlisted in the US Army in 1944, serving at Ohio University, Camp Atterbury in Indiana, and Fort McClellan, Alabama, where an injury in a training accident resulted in his being in Army hospitals for several months, and his discharge from the Army in 1946.
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Charles Peters had his own repertory company in Charleston, West Virginia.
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Charles Peters was named to the editorial board of the Virginia Law Review in 1955, serving until his graduation with a JD in 1957.
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Charles Peters's practice included libel, criminal defense, corporate and labor law, as well as representing plaintiffs and defendants in civil trials.
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In 1968, Charles Peters resigned from the Peace Corps to begin planning a new magazine to be called the Washington Monthly.
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Charles Peters served as editor of the Washington Monthly until he retired in 2001, but continued to write a regular column Tilting at Windmills for the magazine until 2014.
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Charles Peters retired from the nonprofit in 2012, and it ceased operations in 2014.
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In 1957, Charles Peters married Elizabeth Hubbell, a former ballet dancer who had attended Vassar College.
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Charles Peters received the Columbia Journalism Award in 1978 and was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University in 1980, the Delacorte Lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in 1990 and 2003 and visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 1994.
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Charles Peters was a Public Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September 2002 through April 2003.