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Richard N. Côté was born on 3 June, 1945 in Wisconsin, is a historian. Discover Richard N. Côté's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Born 3 June 1945
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2019

For enjoyment, he traveled worldwide and collected 19th century engravings and paintings by contemporary Southern artists. He was active in the right to die movement and served as a spokesman for assisted-suicide activist George Exoo.

2015

Côté died February 10, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina, after falling down stairs at his home. He was 69.

2004

In 2004, he received the Bobby Gilmer Moss Award in History from the Daughters of the American Revolution for his outstanding contributions to South Carolina history. He has been chosen as a Featured Author by the South Carolina Book Festival; the Carl Sandberg Celebration of Books and Authors in Hendersonville, North Carolina; the Spoleto Festival of the Arts in Charleston, South Carolina; and the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum, Washington.

1999

His three biographies, Mary's World: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century Charleston (1999); Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy (2002) and Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison (2004) brought him national recognition. In 2008, "Strength and Honor" was chosen to be translated into the Braille language for the blind by the Library of Congress.

1995

In 1995, Côté was hired by National Press Books through his agent, Robert Eringer, to work as a literary collaborator with Edward Lee Howard, a former CIA spy who defected to Russia after being accused of providing classified information to the Russians. After intensive research and ten days' interviews with Howard in Moscow, Côté returned and wrote Safe House, an authoritative account of Howard's claim to innocence. Unbeknownst to Côté at the time, Eringer was secretly working for the FBI and was using him to acquire information the agency could use against Howard.

1991

In 1991, after being commissioned to write a documentary history of the South Carolina State Ports Authority, that agency insisted that all references to the port's early use for the slave trade be censored, and that local opposition to its expansion be deleted. Côté demanded that his name be removed from the book. "Agreeing to undertake a scholarly writing project is not the same as agreeing to be a literary whore," he said.

1990

In the 1990s he turned to more contemporary subjects, including sexual harassment and abuse, motorcycle gangs and drug dealing, entertainment personalities, the American circus industry, religious cults, and deprogrammers. He also authored or co-authored novels based on family relationships, human cloning, politics, and addiction to psychics.

1979

After moving to South Carolina in 1979, he was recruited by the South Carolina Historical Society. There he spent four years serving as an archivist, librarian, and grant writer. In 1984 he was recruited to establish a high-precision public records microfilming system for the County of Charleston. He also researched the lives of 18th- and 19th-century Southern planters, their homes, and their slaves.

1970

While living in Wisconsin in the 1970s, he became interested with the history of Manitowoc County, first settled by German and Polish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century. His ability to read German Fraktur handwriting led to the transcription of numerous volumes of early German Lutheran church records and tombstones.

1966

After college, Côté served six years in the United States Air Force. He spent a year at Mather Air Force Base, California, and then volunteered to serve in the Vietnam War. At Da Nang Air Base he served both as a USAF combat news photographer and as a munitions specialist from 1966 to 1967. He spent his final four years in the military as a photographer at Hahn Air Base, Germany.

1964

Côté attended Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana where he majored in political science and journalism and became passionate about photography, Greek and Roman mythology, and writing. In 1964 he was inducted into Sigma Delta Chi, the national journalism fraternity, and was awarded a scholarship for his work as the university's newspaper photographer.

1945

Richard N. Côté (/koʊˈteɪ/ koh-TAY; June 3, 1945 – February 10, 2015) was an American author, social historian, and lecturer. His work included research in Wisconsin and four years researching for the South Carolina Historical Society in the late 1970s to early 1980s. From 1999 to 2002 he published three well-received biographies, of Theodosia Burr Alston, Dolley Madison, and Mary Motte Alston Pringle. Côté was born in Connecticut and attended Butler University. He served in the United States Air Force for six years after graduation.

Born June 3, 1945, in Waterbury, Connecticut, to Norman W. and Anne M. (Richall) Côté, he was educated at The Milford School and graduated in 1963 from Amity Regional Senior High School in Woodbridge. One of two children, Côté had an "adventure-filled" childhood. Côté's Dublin-born mother and his Québec-born grandmother, Gertrude Beaudoin Côté, often read to him. He quickly became fascinated with The Harvard Classics and read the complete Encyclopædia Britannica in his teen years. His mother, a part-time journalist, let him use her typewriter, and by the age of twelve, he was typing most of his school papers.