Pete Dawkins

At 86 years old, Pete Dawkins has this physical status:

Peter Miller Dawkins (born March 8, 1938) is an American business executive and former college football player, military officer, and political candidate.

Dawkins attended the United States Military Academy, where he played as halfback on the Army Cadets football team from 1956 to 1958.

As a senior in 1958 he won the Heisman Trophy, the Maxwell Award, and was a consensus All-America selection.

After graduating from the Military Academy in 1959, he studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

Dawkins served as an officer in the United States Army until he retired in 1983 with the rank of brigadier general.

He was a Republican candidate for United States Senate in 1988.

Dawkins has held executive positions with Lehman Brothers, Bain & Company, Primerica, and Citigroup.

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Aims, education, and athletic careers began early in life.

He was successfully treated for polio at the age of 11 with vigorous physical therapy. Dawkins attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, after receiving a scholarship. He was an all-league quarterback and captain of the baseball team. In 1955, he graduated from Cranbrook.

Dawkins, who was accepted by Yale University, decided against attending the West Point Military Academy. He received top awards for his work as First Captain, president of his class, captain of the football team, and a "Star Man" in the top five percent of his class. If a cadet achieves one of these positions, he is considered outstanding. Dawkins was the first cadet to hold all four of the four functions at once. In Life Magazine and Reader's Digest, he was featured. Many predicted that he would become the Army Chief of Staff and possibly even President Obama before his graduation. Dawkins, a halfback and head football coach Earl Blaik, won the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award, earning him the All-America pick in 1958. Dawkins served as an assistant captain for the hockey team. He won three Blues in rugby union and was credited with popularizing the overarm throw (originally called the "Yankee torpass") into the lineout.

Dawkins received a Rhodes Scholarship in 1959 with a BSc from the Military Academy, which was a top class honor. He earned a Bachelor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford in 1962, and later obtained a Master of Public Affairs and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1976 and 1977, The Unstructured Structure of Organizational Change.

Military career

Dawkins completed Infantry School and Ranger School before being sent to service in the 82nd Airborne Division after being commissioned from the academy and finishing his service as a Rhodes Scholar. He received two Bronze Stars for his vainance in Vietnam and was on the 7th Infantry Division and 101st Airborne Commanding. Dawkins, who was a lieutenant colonel, was the commander of the 1st Battalion 23rd Infantry Division, Camp Hovey, Korea, from 1971 to 1972. He served as a White House Fellow in the 1973-74 class in addition to being an instructor at the academy. During this period, he was selected to serve on a task force charged with the transformation of the US Army into an all-volunteer force. Colonel Dawkins, brigade commander of the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which included the 1st and 2nd battalions during the 1970s and 1/508th battalions. He was the 3rd Brigade Commander (War Eagle Brigade) at Fort Campbell in the late 1970s, with the 1/503, 2/503, and 3/187 Infantry Battalions) comprising the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) rated as colonel. He was appointed as the Brigade Commander after serving as the Brigade Commander and was later promoted to brigadier general. Dawkins appeared on Life Magazine in 1966 and appeared in uniform on the front cover of Life magazine and was involved in a section of the "Big Picture" film series "A Country Builds Under Fire" in the United States. This was a short documentary about the progress in South Vietnam narrated by actor John Wayne.

Business career

Dawkins retired as a brigadier general in 1983 after a 24-year service in the Army. Following his release from the Army, Dawkins joined Lehman Brothers, subsequently becoming vice president of Bain & Company. In 1991, he took over Primerica's chairman and CEO. Dawkins, a senior partner at Flintlock Capital Asset Management, is now a senior advisor for Virtu Financial.

Political career

Dawkins established a home in Rumson, New Jersey, around 1986. In 1988, he ran as a Republican against New Jersey's incumbent Democratic senator Frank Lautenberg. The election was notable for the negative tone emanating from both directions and Lautenberg's remark on Dawkins' inability of roots in the state, dubbed a carpetbagger. Dawkins lost by eight points in the general election.

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