About Chester Gillespie
Lived 1897 – 1985 (aged 87–88). Chester Gillespie was an American lawyer and politician.
Chester K. Gillespie (1897–1985) was a lawyer and politician who worked for civil rights in Cleveland, Ohio.
Biography Gillespie was born in Home City, Ohio to Warren and Lulu Trail Gillespie. He graduated from Ohio State University and then from Baldwin-Wallace College Law School in 1920. He served three terms in the Ohio General Assembly in 1933–34, 1939–40, and 1943–44. He was a Republican.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Gillespie served as president of the Cleveland Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1936 and 1937.
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Who was Chester Gillespie?
Ohio lawyer and politician
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Chester Gillespie was born in 1897.
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Chester Gillespie died in 1985.
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Chester Gillespie was a lawyer and politician.
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