Charles Perry

Charles Perry may refer to:

Charles Perry (Texas politician)

Charles Lee Perry (born March 9, 1962) is a Republican member of the Texas State Senate from West Texas District 28 which contains two cities, Lubbock and San Angelo, and 46 mostly rural counties. He won an outright majority in a special election for the seat held on September 9, 2014. The slot became open when Robert L. Duncan, another Republican, resigned to become the new chancellor of the Texas Tech University System.

From 2011 to 2014, Perry was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 83, a rural district south of Lubbock. A certified public accountant, Perry unseated incumbent Representative Delwin L. Jones, then the oldest member of the Texas House, in the runoff election held on April 13, 2010. He faced no Democratic opponents in the November 2 general election. Perry took his seat in the 150-member House in January 2011.

Charles Perry is not related to former Governor Rick Perry.

Early life, education and career

Perry was born in Abilene in Taylor County, Texas. He graduated in 1980 from Sweetwater High School in Sweetwater in Nolan County. In 1984, he completed his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting from Texas Tech University and has since worked in that field. Perry is affiliated with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, and the National Association of Securities Dealers.

Charles Perry (food writer)

Charles Perry is an American food historian. He has translated several medieval cookbooks from Arabic to English and published widely on the history of food, particularly of the Middle East and California. He also authored or co-authored books about San Francisco the 1960s, and was a prolific journalist for Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications.

Biography

Perry was born in Los Angeles in 1941 and attended public schools. From 1959 to 1961 he majored in Middle East studies at Princeton University. In 1961 he transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1962 he spent a year at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies in Shemlan, Lebanon, where he earned the British Foreign Office’s higher standard interpretorship certificate. He graduated from the University of California in 1964.

In his senior year, one of his roommates was the future “LSD millionaire” Owsley Stanley and Perry was present for most of the great events of the San Francisco psychedelic scene of the 1960s. In 1968 he started working at recently founded Rolling Stone Magazine and was the first editorial employee who lasted more than a few weeks. He remained at Rolling Stone as an editor and staff writer until 1976, when he left to write The Haight-Ashbury: A History for Random House Books. Author page at Rolling Stone Magazine website: