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Edward Leigh Gates Jr. was born in 1935, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Edward Sr. and J. Jane (Soulé) Gates. Tom (his nickname from early youth) grew up in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, and attended Manchester Public School, Shore Country Day School, and Phillips Academy Andover, class of 1952. He enrolled at Harvard University in the fall of 1952 as a mathematics major but joined the US Marine Corps in July 1953 on turning 18. …

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1935
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August 28th, 2025
Salem, Virginia, États-Unis

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Edward "Tom" Gates, Jr