About: Charles Erwin Wilson   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/4OOunMt5mcGuQDwypD1gRQ==, within Data Space : dbkwik.org associated with source dataset(s)

Charles Erwin Wilson (July 18, 1890 – September 26, 1961), American businessman and politician, was United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Eisenhower. Known as "Engine Charlie", he previously worked as CEO for General Motors. In the wake of the Korean War, he cut the defense budget significantly.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Charles Erwin Wilson
rdfs:comment
  • Charles Erwin Wilson (July 18, 1890 – September 26, 1961), American businessman and politician, was United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Eisenhower. Known as "Engine Charlie", he previously worked as CEO for General Motors. In the wake of the Korean War, he cut the defense budget significantly.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
term start
  • 1953-01-20(xsd:date)
Birth Date
  • 1890-07-18(xsd:date)
death place
  • Norwood, Louisiana, Louisiana, U.S.
SmallImage
  • Charles Wilson official DoD photo.jpg
Name
  • Charles Erwin Wilson
Alma mater
President
Birth Place
  • Minerva, Ohio, U.S.
Title
term end
  • 1957(xsd:integer)
death date
  • 1961-09-26(xsd:date)
Successor
Before
Years
  • 1941(xsd:integer)
  • 1946(xsd:integer)
  • 1953(xsd:integer)
After
Profession
  • Businessman
Order
  • 5(xsd:integer)
Department
  • Secretary of Defense
Predecessor
abstract
  • Charles Erwin Wilson (July 18, 1890 – September 26, 1961), American businessman and politician, was United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Eisenhower. Known as "Engine Charlie", he previously worked as CEO for General Motors. In the wake of the Korean War, he cut the defense budget significantly.
is Successor of
is Before of
is After of
is Predecessor of
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software