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Nikki Haley – American politician

Nikki Haley – American politician. Governor Haley Official Portrait

Nikki Haley – American politician. Governor Haley Official Portrait

Nikki Haley is an American politician, the 116th governor of South Carolina. Haley became the first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina. She is the youngest current governor in the United States.
Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley was born on January 20, 1972 in Bamberg, South Carolina. Her parents, Dr. Ajit Singh Randhawa and Raj Kaur Randhawa, immigrated from Amritsar, Punjab. She has two brothers and a sister. Her brother Mitti is a retired member of the United States Army Chemical Corps who served for 20 years. Her second brother Charan is a web designer. Her sister Simran is a radio host.
Haley graduated from Orangeburg private school and then received a bachelor’s degree in accounting at Clemson University.
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Ben Carson – neurosurgeon and author

Ben Carson - neurosurgeon and author

Ben Carson – neurosurgeon and author

Ben Carson is American neurosurgeon and author. He was the first doctor who successfully performed an operation to separate Siamese twins who were born joined at the head. In 2008 the 43rd US President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was a candidate for the US presidency in 2016.
Benjamin Solomon “Ben” Carson Sr. was born on September 18, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan. His parents divorced when Ben was eight years old. His mother had only a third-grade education and worked as a maid, sometimes holding two or even three jobs to support her family. The family was poor.
While studying in secondary school, Ben had a dream – to become a doctor.
He graduated from Yale University (Department of Psychology), and then the medical department of the University of Michigan.
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Megyn Kelly – journalist and TV presenter

Megyn Kelly – journalist and TV presenter

Megyn Kelly – journalist and TV presenter

Megyn Kelly is an American journalist, television presenter, and a lawyer.
Megyn Marie Kelly-Brunt was born on November 18, 1970 in Albany, New York. She grew up in Syracuse, in the same state. When Megyn was 15 years old, her father died of a heart attack, and later her mother remarried. Megyn has an older brother, Pete Kelly, who lives in Atlanta and sister – an unmarried mother of three children.
In 1995 Megyn graduated from Albany Law School. Subsequent 9 years Kelly had been practicing law in Jones Day. At first she worked as a lawyer in Chicago office of Bickel & Brewer LLP and later began her career in journalism. In 2003, she began a career as a journalist reporter for the ABC, and in 2004 agreed to work on FOX.
She also has been a trainer in aerobics for 10 years.
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Henry Alfred Kissinger – American statesman

Henry Alfred Kissinger - American statesman

Henry Alfred Kissinger – American statesman

Henry Alfred Kissinger is an American statesman, diplomat and expert in international relations. He was the chief foreign policy adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford between 1969 and 1974. From 1973 to 1977 he was US Secretary of State. Kissinger is the first person awarded Ewald von Kleist Award in 2009. He is the chairman of Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm. Also, he is a Doctor of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Heinz Alfred Kissinger was born on May 27, 1923, Fürth, Bavaria into a religious Jewish family during the period of the Weimar Republic. His father, Louis Kissinger (1887-1982) was a schoolteacher. His mother, Paula Stern Kissinger (1901-1998), was a housewife. His younger brother’s name was Walter.
In 1938, fleeing Nazis persecution the family emigrated to the United States and settled in New York. Henry Kissinger studied at George Washington High School in New York and went to school at night and during the day he worked in a shaving brushes factory. After graduating from high school, Kissinger entered New York City College, where he studied accounts management.
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Hillary Clinton – American female politician

Hillary Clinton – American female politician

Hillary Clinton – American female politician

Hillary Clinton is an American politician, member of the Democratic Party; first Lady of the United States (1993-2001), US Senator from New York (2001-2009), US Secretary of State (2009-2013), US presidential candidate in elections in 2016.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born on October 26, 1947 in Chicago. She was born into a family of immigrants from England and Wales. Hillary was the eldest of three children and the most purposeful of them. She has two younger brothers, Hugh and Anthony. At school she was actively involved in charity and public affairs. As a child she was fond of astronautics, dreamed to fly into space, and even sent a request to NASA.
Rodham attended the public schools of Park Ridge and in 1965 enrolled in Wellesley College, where she majored in political science and took a minor in psychology. In 1969 she enrolled in Yale University Law School, where she was among 30 women in the class of 1972.
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Donald Trump – 45th president of America

Donald Trump – 45th president of America

Donald Trump – 45th president of America

Donald Trump is the 45th president of the United States of America. On November 8, 2016 Trump won the presidential election and he takes office on January 20, 2017. The well-known businessman and media mogul, Trump is the president of a construction conglomerate Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts, which specializes in the gaming and hospitality industry. In 1996-2015 he was the owner of the beauty contest Miss USA. In addition, he was executive produced and presenter of the reality show Candidate on NBC. He appeared as himself in a number of movies and TV series. He is known for his extravagant lifestyle and outspoken style of communication.
Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York. Trump has two brothers and two sisters. Donald was the fourth of five children of Frederick C. and Mary MacLeod Trump. Frederick Trump was a builder and real estate developer who came to specialize in constructing and operating middle income apartments in the Queens, Staten Island, and Brooklyn.
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Charles de Gaulle – French president

Charles de Gaulle - French president

Charles de Gaulle – French president

Charles de Gaulle was a French soldier and statesman, General. During the Second World War, he became a symbol of the French Resistance. He was founder and first president of the Fifth Republic (1959-1969).
Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle was born on November 22, 1890 in Lille into the patriotic Catholic family. He was the third of five children. His father, Henri de Gaulle (1848-1932) was a professor of philosophy and literature at the Jesuit school, which greatly influenced Charles. From early childhood, the boy loved to read and was fond of history.
Charles studied at the Special Military School of Saint-Cyr which he graduated in 1912.
Since the beginning of the First World War, on August 12, 1914 Lieutenant de Gaulle took part in military operation. On August 15 he received his first injury. On March 10, 1916 at the Battle of Le Mesnil-le-Yurlyu he was wounded for the second time. In 1916 during of the Battle of Verdun he was wounded for the third time. Charles was left on the battlefield and was captured by the Germans. De Gaulle made six attempts to escape without success. Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the future Marshal of the Red Army, was together with him in captivity. At that time de Gaulle wrote his first book Discord Among The Enemy (published in 1916).
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