Jim Webb
Sign in to saveAlso known as James H. Webb, James Henry Webb Jr., James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr., James Webb
American politician, military officer and author (born 1946)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 30
Top works
- You Don't Need a Man to Fix It Book
- Suburban Monsters
- Circumstances of the Books of the Bible
- Emissions from European agriculture
- Alphabetical Bible Subjects
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1940-10-14
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 379
- Total plays
- 1,965
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,086x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,419x
- The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments
· 2009 · cited 13,946x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,178x
- Two-Photon Laser Scanning Fluorescence Microscopy
· 1990 · cited 8,130x
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Quotes
- “Friends are found on the battlefield, and unfortunately friends are also lost. And where do we find the measure of that sacrifice? How can we account for the value of that loss? Sometimes we can find an answer in our sense of country, at other times in our Corps. But clearly we can see it in the lives that were able to continue due to the acts of others who were not so fortunate.”
- “Our country is in the middle of a profound crisis. This crisis has many causes, but much of it has been brought about by poor leadership decisions at every level of government. In addition, our electoral process is dominated by financial interests that are threatened by the very notion of reform.”
- “I go anywhere in the world they tell me to go, any time they tell me to, to fight anybody they want me to fight. I move my family anywhere they tell me to move to, on a day's notice, and I live in whatever quarters they assign me. I work whenever they tell me to work... and I like it.”
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- George Allen
- Succeeded by
- Tim Kaine
- President
- Ronald Reagan
- Born
- James Henry Webb Jr. , ( 1946-02-09 ) February 9, 1946 (age 80) , St. Joseph, Missouri , U.S.
- Party
- Republican (before 2006), Democratic (2006–present)
- Spouses
- Barbara Samorajczyk ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1968 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1979 ) Jo Ann Krukar ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1981 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2004 ) Hong Le Webb ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2005 )
- Children
- 6, including 1 stepchild
- Education
- University of Southern California (attended) United States Naval Academy ( BS ) Georgetown University ( JD )
- Website
- Official website
- Branch service
- United States Marine Corps
- Years of service
- 1968–1972
- Rank
- Captain
- Unit
- Delta Company, 1st Battalion 5th Marines
- Battles wars
- Vietnam War ( Wounded in action</span>"}]]}'>WIA )
- Awards
- Navy Cross Silver Star Bronze Star Medal (2) Purple Heart (2)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.jameswebb.com
- Image
- James Webb, Assistant Secretary of Defense, official photo.JPEG
- Number of children
- 5
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- Commons category
- Jim Webb
- date of birth
- 1946-02-09
- birth name
- James Henry Webb
- name in native language
- Jim Webb
- Commons gallery
- Jim Webb
- start of work period
- 1968-00-00
- social media followers
- 23218
- P10632
- Jim Webb
- end of work period
- 1972-00-00
Sources (15)
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Article
James Henry Webb Jr. (born February 9, 1946) is an 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 is a retired Marine Corps officer. Webb has been a member of the Democratic Party since 2006, having initially been a Republican. He was the first Democratic U.S. senator to be elected in Virginia since 1994 and most recently elected who did not serve as Governor of Virginia.
Outside of working in government, Webb has also worked as a journalist, filmmaker, and author of ten books. In addition, he taught literature at the United States Naval Academy and was a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. As a member of the Democratic Party, Webb announced on November 19, 2014, that he was forming an exploratory committee to evaluate a run for President of the United States in 2016. On July 2, 2015, he announced that he would be joining the race for the Democratic nomination for president, but stepped down from running in the primaries on October 20, 2015, stating that he was "not comfortable" with many political positions from the party's leadership.