Biography of george freeman son
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Early Years
George Freeman Bragg was born into slavery on January 25, 1863, in Warren County, North Carolina, the son of George Freeman Bragg, a carpenter, and Mary Bragg, a seamstress. At the age of two Bragg moved with his family to Petersburg, where his grandmother Caroline Wiley Cain Bragg lived. A devout Episcopalian, she was instrumental in the founding of Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in 1867, and her extended family composed a majority of the congregation.
Bragg attended his family’s church and Saint Stephen’s Normal and Theological School as well, where he studied under Giles Buckner Cooke, a former Confederate staff officer and dedicated educator of freedpeople. Bragg also became involved in the field of journalism. From an early age he delivered newspapers and accordingly established relationships with prominent white residents of Petersburg, among them an editor of the Petersburg Index, John H. Chamberlayne, who in time gave him practical experience in every aspect of newspaper publishing. Chamberlayne also introduced Bragg to the world of Virginia politics, for the editor was a close ally of William Mahone, of Petersburg, who created the Readjuster Party and actively courted black voters.
Public Career
Bragg moved quickly through the n
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George Freeman (bookmaker)
Australian turf accountant and bookmaker (1935–1990)
George David Freeman (22 January 1935 – 20 March 1990) was an Australian bookmaker, racing identity and illegal casino operator.[2][3] He was linked to the Sydney drug trade during the 1970s and 1980s, was named in several Royal Commissions into organised crime and had links with American crime figures. Freeman served several prison terms for theft between 1951 and 1968 but was never brought to trial for any of his later alleged crimes, receiving only monetary fines for SP bookmaking in the mid-1980s. Freeman survived a murder attempt in 1979, was married twice, published an autobiography and died in 1990 of heart failure related to asthma and pethidine addiction.
Early life
[edit]George Freeman was born in Annandale, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, to William David Freeman and Rita Eileen Freeman (née Cooke) on 22 January 1935. He was the youngest of three children. Freeman's parents were married at Five Dock in 1931 and were divorced in 1946.[4] After his father abandoned the family and his stepfather died, Freeman turned to crime and was arrested in 1947 for theft. He served two years' probation and left school at 14 to work as a sta
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