Charles Kennedy
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 22
Top works
- There Is No Place Like Home I
- Paranormal Tradecraft
- C. A. S. P. E. R.
- Long Term Care Nurses Guide - Revised
- Neural Psychology and the Paranormal Investigation
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1956-12-28
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 17
- Total plays
- 29
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Particle swarm optimization
· cited 40,962x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,455x
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 29,186x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,733x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,422x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive and then being able to take people with you. And that requires something else as well - being wise enough to know when it's time to listen.”
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Key facts
- Deputy
- Menzies Campbell Alan Beith
- Preceded by
- Paddy Ashdown
- Succeeded by
- Menzies Campbell
- Leader
- Paddy Ashdown
- Born
- Charles Peter Kennedy , ( 1959-11-25 ) 25 November 1959, Inverness , Scotland
- Died
- 1 June 2015 (2015-06-01) (aged 55), Fort William , Scotland
- Party
- Liberal Democrats (from 1988)
- Other political affiliations
- SDP (1981–1988), Labour (1974–1981)
- Spouse
- Sarah Gurling ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2002 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2010 )
- Alma mater
- Glasgow University , Indiana University
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Charles Peter Kennedy (25 November 1959 – 1 June 2015) was a Scottish politician who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1999 to 2006, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ross, Skye and Lochaber from 1983 to 2015.
Kennedy was elected to the House of Commons in 1983 as a member of the Social Democratic Party, and after the SDP–Liberal Alliance merged into the Liberal Democrats, became the party's president. Following the resignation of Paddy Ashdown in August 1999, Kennedy became the party's leader. He led the party in the 2001 and 2005 general elections, increasing its number of seats in the House of Commons to their highest level since 1923, led his party's opposition to the Iraq War, and broadly positioned the party to the left of New Labour. A charismatic and affable speaker in public, he appeared extensively on television during his leadership.
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