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us: Webb, James, 1946 February 9-


  • URI(s)

  • Instance Of

  • Scheme Membership(s)

  • Collection Membership(s)

  • Fuller Name

    • James Henry
  • Variants

    • us: Webb, James H.
    • us: Webb, Jim, 1946-
    • us: ווב, ג׳יימס, 1946-
    • us: Webb, James H., Jr., 1946-
  • Addtional Information

    • Birth Date

        (edtf) 1946-02-09
    • Birth Place

        (naf) Saint Joseph (Mo.)
    • Associated Locale

        (naf) United States
    • Associated Locale

        (naf) Virginia
    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: (naf) Democratic Party (U.S.)
    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: (naf) United States. Congress. Senate
        • Affiliation Start: 2007
        • Affiliation End: 2013
    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: (naf) United States. Department of the Navy
        • Affiliation Start: 1987
        • Affiliation End: 1988
    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: (naf) United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
        • Affiliation Start: 1977
        • Affiliation End: 1981
    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: (naf) United States Naval Academy
    • Gender

        male
    • Gender

        (lcdgt) Males
    • Gender

        (lcdgt) Men
    • Associated Language

        eng
    • Field of Activity

        (lcsh) Journalism
          (lcsh) Motion picture plays
            (lcsh) Motion picture authorship
              (lcsh) Motion pictures--Production and direction
                (lcgft) Novels
                  (lcgft) Fiction
                • Occupation

                    (lcsh) Legislators--United States
                      (lcsh) Politicians
                        (lcsh) Public officers
                          (lcsh) Journalists
                            (lcsh) Novelists
                              (lcsh) Screenwriters
                                (lcsh) Motion picture producers and directors
                                  (lcsh) Literature teachers
                              • Earlier Established Forms

                                • Webb, James H.
                              • Sources

                                • found: Micronesia and the U.S. Pacific strategy, 1974.
                                • found: A country such as this, 1983: t.p. (James Webb)
                                • found: Something to die for, c1991: t.p. (James Webb) jkt. (Marine Corps service in Vietnam, journalist; former Assistant Secretary of Defense)
                                • found: Contemporary authors on CD, June 1999 (Webb, James H(enry) Jr., b. Feb. 9, 1946)
                                • found: A time to fight, 2008: t.p. (Jim Webb)
                                • found: Wikipedia, October 14, 2015 (Jim Webb; James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr. (born February 9, 1946); American politician and author; he has served as a United States Senator from Virginia, Secretary of the Navy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, Counsel for the United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and Marine Corps officer; Emmy Award winning journalist, a filmmaker, and the author of ten books (six novels). In addition, he taught literature at the United States Naval Academy and was a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics; member of the Democratic Party; U.S. Senator in office January 3, 2007-January 3, 2013; United States Secretary of the Navy in office May 1, 1987-February 23, 1988; born St. Joseph, Missouri)
                                • found: His website, October 14, 2015: home page (Jim Webb; books: I Heard My Country Calling (2014); Fields of Fire (1978); A Sense of Honor (1981); A Country Such as This (1983); Something to Die For (1991); The Emperor's General (1999); Lost Soldiers (2001); Born Fighting (2004); A Time to Fight (2008)) about Jim (former Senator from Virginia, has been a combat Marine, a counsel in the Congress, an assistant secretary of defense and Secretary of the Navy, an Emmy-award winning journalist, a film-maker, and the author of ten books; graduated from the Naval Academy in 1968; graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1975; counsel to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs from 1977 to 1981; in 1984 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, and in 1987 became Secretary of the Navy; traveling widely as a journalist, he received an Emmy Award for his PBS coverage of the U.S. Marines in Beirut in 1983, and in 2004 was embedded with the U.S. military in Afghanistan. A screenwriter and producer, his original story "Rules of Engagement" held the top slot in U.S. box offices for two weeks in April 2000) {http://www.jameswebb.com/}
                                • found: OCLC, October 14, 2015 (access points: Webb, James H.; Webb, James H., Jr; Webb, Jim; usage: Jim Webb; James Webb; James H. Webb, Jr.; predominant usage: James Webb)
                              • LC Classification

                                • PS3573.E1955
                              • Editorial Notes

                                • [Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project.]
                                • [Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.]
                              • Change Notes

                                • 1981-01-19: new
                                • 2015-10-15: revised
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