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Dick Cheatham
Now available for speaking engagements.

Dick Cheatham is a founder and director of Living History Associates, Ltd. A native of Richmond, Virginia, Dick is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute (one of America's top schools of leadership) with a Degree in History and Liberal Arts. A weekly newspaper columnist, member of the National Speakers Association, and "living history" character portrayor, Dick has been an educator and a television journalist, having covered the Virginia State Capitol and the Governor's Office for six years.

In addition to thousands of presentations to all sorts of groups over the past seventeen years, he has appeared on the BBC and The Learning Channel, has been interviewed on Entertainment Tonight and the Voice of America and is appearing in several PBS series this year. He is also listed in Who's Who in Professional Speaking.

His interest in history flows directly from his strong and broad interest in ideas - why people do what they do. Many of the fundamental concepts that guided the formation of the USA took root and matured in the area where he was born and raised. These are concepts that fascinate Dick and have motivated him to study our incomparable American History and demonstrate its relevance to us today.

Most recently, Dick has been busy presenting himself as Captain Meriwether Lewis, who opened the American west for Jefferson's vision of an Empire of Liberty and as John Rolfe, husband of Pocahontas and savior of the English Colony that became the USA, from whom he is directly descended fourteen generations ago. Dick also portrays President John Tyler, one of America's most courageous and principled Chief Executives and Richard Henry Lee who made (not wrote) the declaration of independence.

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Captain Lewis

Three Centuries of American Heroes