1. Sol Gareth "Garry" Davis was an international peace activist best known for renouncing his American citizenship and interrupting the United Nations in 1948 to advocate for world government as a way to end nationalistic wars.
21 Facts About Garry Davis
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Previously, Garry Davis had worked as a Broadway stage actor and understudy for Danny Kaye.
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Garry Davis served as an American bomber pilot in World War II.
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Garry Davis was born in Bar Harbor, Maine, to Meyer and Hilda Garry Davis.
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Garry Davis graduated from The Episcopal Academy in 1940 and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology.
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Garry Davis served in the US Army during the Second World War as B-17 bomber pilot.
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Garry Davis mentioned Henry Martyn Noel, who had renounced a few months earlier, as one of his inspirations.
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Garry Davis interrupted a United Nations General Assembly session on 19 November 1948, "We, the people, want the peace which only a world government can give," he proclaimed.
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Garry Davis founded the International Registry of World Citizens in Paris in January 1949, registering over 750,000 individuals.
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On September 4,1953, Garry Davis formed an organisation, the World Government of World Citizens, with the stated aim of furthering fundamental human rights.
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Garry Davis first used his World Passport on a trip to India in 1956 and was allegedly admitted into some countries using it.
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Garry Davis ran for mayor in Washington, DC, in 1986 as the "World Citizen Party" candidate, receiving 585 votes.
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Garry Davis declared himself the World Citizen Party candidate for the 1988 US presidential election.
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Garry Davis published multiple books in favor of his cause of world citizenship.
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At the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Garry Davis issued and disbursed a world currency based on kilowatt-hours of solar power produced, an idea proposed by Buckminster Fuller.
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In March 2012, at age 90, Garry Davis began broadcasting a weekly radio show, "World Citizen Radio", on the Global Radio Alliance.
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In 2012, Garry Davis sent WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a World Passport.
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Only weeks before he died, Garry Davis sent a World Passport to whistleblower Edward Snowden in Moscow in care of the Russian authorities.
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Garry Davis entered hospice care on 18 July 2013, and died six days later in the municipality of South Burlington, Vermont, three days shy of his 92nd birthday.
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Garry Davis was survived by a daughter from his first marriage, Kristina Starr Davis; two sons, Troy and Kim; and a daughter, Athena Davis from his third marriage; as well as two siblings and a granddaughter.
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The German History advisor Julian Pastor challenged the legitimacy of Garry Davis' claimed Master's from an East-West University.