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Charles Lindbergh

Charles LindberghAKA Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Born: 4-Feb-1902
Birthplace: Detroit, MI
Died: 26-Aug-1974
Location of death: Maui, HI
Cause of death: Cancer - Lymphoma
Remains: Buried, Palapala Ho'omao Congregational Church Cemetery, Kipahulu, Maui, HI

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Aviator

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Transatlantic soloist

Military service: US Army Air Corps (1924, Brigadier General)

Father: Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. (US Congressman, b. 1859, d. May-1924)
Mother: Evangeline Land (d. 1954)
Wife: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (m. 27-May-1929, d. 7-Feb-2001)
Son: Charles Lindbergh, Jr. (b. 22-Jun-1930, kidnapped and killed)
Son: Jon Lindbergh (b. 1932)
Son: Land Lindbergh (b. 1937)
Daughter: Anne Spencer Lindbergh (b. 1940, d. 1993, cancer)
Son: Scott Lindbergh (b. 12-Aug-1942)
Daughter: Reeve Lindbergh (b. 1945)
Mistress: Brigitte Hesshaimer (d. 2001, secret relationship 1957-74, two sons, one daughter)
Son: Dyrk Hesshaimer (b. 1958)
Daughter: Astrid Hesshaimer (b. 1960)
Son: David Hesshaimer (b. 1967)

    High School: Little Falls High School, Little Falls, MN (1918)
    University: University of Wisconsin (dropout 1924)

    TWA Technical Advisor (for Transcontinental Air Transport)
    America First Committee 1941
    Explorers Club
    Freemasonry 1926 (Keystone No. 243, Missouri)
    Congressional Gold Medal 4-May-1928, 45 Stat. 490
    National Aviation Hall of Fame
    Silver Buffalo
    Time Person of the Year 1927
    French Legion of Honor
    Distinguished Flying Cross 21-Mar-1929
    Congressional Medal of Honor 21-Mar-1929
    Pulitzer Prize for Biography The Spirit of St. Louis (1954)
    St. Louis Walk of Fame
    Ticker-Tape Parade 13-Jun-1927
    Traveled to Nazi Germany 1936, 1938
    Traveled to the USSR Aug-1938
    White Supremacists
    Swedish Ancestry Paternal

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