Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 16, 1931
Died
Apr 21, 2012
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Credits
4 titles
Charles Colson
Biography
Charles Wendell Colson (October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012) was an American attorney and political advisor who served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970. Once known as President Nixon's "hatchet man", Colson gained notoriety at the height of the Watergate scandal, for being named as one of the Watergate Seven and also for pleading guilty to obstruction of justice for attempting to defame Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg. In 1974, Colson served seven months in the federal Maxwell Prison in Alabama, as the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Colson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
