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John Ashcroft
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79th United States Attorney General
OverviewAI-generated
John Ashcroft is a person associated with Australia and recognized in the US Senators collection. He has been the subject of five works listed in Crossref and eleven works cataloged by Open Library. His notable works include *Test Results for Disk Imaging Tool*, *Ashcroft's railway directory for 1864*, *Just War and Christian Traditions*, *On My Honor*, and *Lessons from a Father to His Son*.
In music contexts, he is listed as an artist with 210 listeners and a playcount of 760 on Last.fm. Tags associated with his profile include "disgrace to society," "untalented," "douchebag," "moustache no longer popular," and "granola blow job." He was born in 1942 and has been referenced by 969 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Wikiquote, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Test Results for Disk Imaging Tool
- Ashcroft's railway directory for 1864
- Just War and Christian Traditions
- On My Honor
- Lessons from a Father to His Son
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 210
- Total plays
- 760
Tags
John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) is an American politician who was the 79th United States Attorney General. He served during the first term of President George W. Bush from 2001 until 2005. Ashcroft was previously the Governor of Missouri (1985–1993) and a U.S. Senator from Missouri (1995–2001). Ashcroft composed a paean called "Let the Eagle Soar" which he sang at the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in February 2002. The rendition <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Ashcroft">Rea
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,252x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,497x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,874x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,518x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,119x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.”
- “Since Tuesday the Justice Department has received reports of violence and threats of violence against Arab-Americans and other Americans of Middle Eastern and South Asian descents. We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their national origin. Such reports of violence and threats are in direct opposition to the very principles and laws of the United States and will not be tolerated.”
- “Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you.”
- “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies, and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil.”
- “The last time I looked at September 11th, an American street was a war zone. There was a street in Virginia that was a war zone.”
- “The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- President
- George W. Bush
- Deputy
- Robert Mueller (acting), Larry Thompson , James Comey
- Preceded by
- Janet Reno
- Succeeded by
- Alberto Gonzales
- Lieutenant
- Harriet Woods , Mel Carnahan
- Governor
- Joseph Teasdale , Kit Bond
- Born
- John David Ashcroft , ( 1942-05-09 ) May 9, 1942 (age 84) , Chicago , Illinois, U.S.
- Party
- Republican
- Spouse
- Janet Ashcroft ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1967 )
- Children
- 3, including Jay
- Education
- Yale University ( BA ), University of Chicago ( JD )
via Wikipedia infobox
~28 min read
Encyclopedic overview
John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and former politician who served as the 79th United States attorney general under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. A Republican from Missouri, Ashcroft represented the state in the United States Senate from 1995 to 2001, and held statewide office as the 29th auditor (1973–1975), 38th attorney general (1976–1985), and 50th governor of Missouri (1985–1993). He later founded The Ashcroft Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm.
Ashcroft graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1960 before receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Yale College and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. After unsuccessfully running for the U.S. House of Representatives, he was appointed Missouri State Auditor in 1973, before being defeated for re-election in 1974. He then served two consecutive terms as Missouri Attorney General and as Missouri Governor (a historical first for a Republican candidate in the state). He is the only Republican to serve two full consecutive terms as governor to date. He also served one term as a U.S. Senator from Missouri until losing a race for a second term in 2000. Ashcroft had early appointments in Missouri state government, and was mentored by John Danforth. He has written several books about politics and ethics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Ashcroft” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.