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|commands = |battles = |awards = }} Colin Luther Powell (; born April 5, 1937)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/powell-colin-luther )〕 is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army.〔Preferred pronunciation rhymes with "bowel", not "bowl" (as in Charles Powell, Baron Powell of Bayswater) – see Alexander Chancellor, "You Say Tomato," ''New Yorker.'' August 9, 1993, p. 27.〕 He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position.〔(The first African American secretary of state, Colin Powell ), The African American Registry.〕〔(Biographies – Colin Powell: United States Secretary of State ), African American History Month, US Department of Defense.〕〔(Colin Powell ), Britannica Online Encyclopedia.〕〔(Profile: Colin Powell ), BBC News.〕 During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor (1987–1989), as Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command (1989) and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993), holding the latter position during the Persian Gulf War. He was the first, and so far the only, African American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and was the first of two consecutive black office-holders to hold the key administration position of U.S. Secretary of State. ==Early life and education== Powell was born on April 5, 1937, in Harlem, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, to Jamaican immigrant parents Maud Arial (née McKoy) and Luther Theophilus Powell. He also has Scottish ancestry. Powell was raised in the South Bronx and attended Morris High School, a former public school in the Bronx, from which he graduated in 1954. While at school, he worked at a local baby furniture store where he picked up Yiddish from the shopkeepers and some of the customers. He also served as a Shabbos goy.〔"Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell and Mario Cuomo, former governor of New York State, each a former Shabbos goy, both share fond recollections of their youth, when they were uniquely qualified to lend a Jewish neighbor a hand." Fertig, Avi. "Glatt Kosher Adventure To The Land Down Under", The Jewish Press, November 21, 2007.〕 He received his BS degree in geology from the City College of New York in 1958 and was a self-admitted C average student. He was later able to earn an MBA degree from the George Washington University in 1971, after his second tour in Vietnam. Despite his parents' pronunciation of his name as , Powell has pronounced his name since childhood, after the heroic World War II flyer Colin P. Kelly Jr.. Public officials and radio and television reporters have used Powell's preferred pronunciation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colin Powell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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