1. Peter Miller Dawkins was born on March 8,1938 and is an American business executive and former college football player, hockey player, military officer, and political candidate.
20 Facts About Pete Dawkins
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Pete Dawkins served as an officer in the United States Army until he retired in 1983 with the rank of brigadier general.
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Pete Dawkins received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Bernard W Rogers, USA in 1983.
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Pete Dawkins was a Republican candidate for United States Senate in 1988.
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Pete Dawkins is the only person in history to have held the titles of Brigade Commander, Football Team Captain, Class President, Star Man, Heisman Trophy winner, and Rhodes Scholar.
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Pete Dawkins is often regarded as the most decorated cadet in the history of the United States Military Academy.
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Pete Dawkins is the lone survivor among the first 27 recipients.
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At age 11, Pete Dawkins was successfully treated for polio with aggressive physical therapy.
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Pete Dawkins earned high honors, serving as First Captain, president of his class, captain of the football team, and a "Star Man" in the top five percent of his class academically.
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Pete Dawkins was the only cadet in history to hold all four at once.
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Pete Dawkins was featured in Life Magazine and Reader's Digest.
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Pete Dawkins began his playing career at West Point under head football coach Earl Blaik as a fourth string quarterback before being cut from the position.
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Later playing as a halfback during his junior and senior season, Pete Dawkins saw great success and eventually won the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award and was a consensus All-America selection in 1958.
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Pete Dawkins graduated with a BSc from the Military Academy in 1959 with a very high class standing, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.
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Pete Dawkins earned a BA at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1962 in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and later earned a Master of Public Affairs in 1970 and a PhD in 1977 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University with the dissertation The United States Army and the "Other" War in Vietnam: A Study of the Complexity of Implementing Organizational Change.
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Pete Dawkins received two Bronze Stars for Valor for his service in Vietnam and held commands in the 7th Infantry Division and 101st Airborne.
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Pete Dawkins was a senior partner at Flintlock Capital Asset Management and is currently a senior advisor for Virtu Financial.
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Sometime before April 1987, Pete Dawkins established residence in Rumson, New Jersey.
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Pete Dawkins ran for the US Senate as a Republican against New Jersey's incumbent Democratic US Senator, Frank Lautenberg, in 1988.
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Pete Dawkins lost in the general election by an eight-point margin.