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In 1948, Colson volunteered in the campaign to re-elect the Governor of Massachusetts, Robert Bradford . After attending Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge in 1949, he earned his AB, with honors, in history from Brown University in 1953, and his J.D., with honors, from George Washington University Law School in 1959.
On March 1, 1974, Colson was indicted for conspiring to cover up the Watergate burglaries. As Colson was facing arrest, his close friend Thomas L. Phillips, chairman of the board of Raytheon Company, gave him a copy of Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis; after reading it, Colson became an evangelical Christian.
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Colson pleads guilty to obstruction of justice in the case of Daniel Ellsberg.
Colson is born in Boston on October 16.
As a new Christian, Chuck Colson voluntarily pled guilty to obstruction of justice in 1974 and served seven months in Alabama’s Maxwell Prison for his part in the Watergate scandal.
Colson receives the prestigious Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He donates the $1 million prize to the work of Prison Fellowship.
Prison Fellowship creates the Charles Colson Hope Awards to honor men and women who continue Colson’s legacy of bringing hope and restoration to those affected by crime and incarceration.
Congress creates the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections, a bipartisan, blue-ribbon panel charged with examining challenges in the federal corrections system and developing practical, data-driven solutions.
Chuck Colson passed away April 21, 2012. His legacy continues, however, in the work of Prison Fellowship and in the lives of the many people his ministry has touched. After a career in hardball politics, Chuck Colson emerged as one of the most influential evangelical leaders of the past half century, devoting his life to ministering ...
Colson arrives at court in Washington in 1974 to be sentenced for obstructing justice. He embraced Christianity while awaiting trial. Photograph: Bob Daugherty/AP
F Scott Fitzgerald once said: "There are no second acts in American lives." Charles Colson might have caused him to reconsider. In 1972, Colson, who has died aged 80, boasted to his colleagues in Richard Nixon's White House that he would "walk over my own grandmother" to get Nixon re-elected. His path led not over his grandmother, but through the Watergate scandal to prison, and then to a remarkable transformation into an evangelical Christian leader, bestselling writer and prison reformer.
As Nixon's aides toppled one by one, Colson led the effort to smear those testifying, including another White House lawyer, John Dean, whose evidence against Nixon was particularly damning. Finally, Colson, too, resigned, in March 1973. A year later, he was indicted for his part in the cover-up. Facing an impeachment trial, Nixon resigned on 9 August 1974.