The Silent Generation is the demographic cohort following the G.I. Generation. There are no precise dates for when this generation starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use starting dates ranging from the mid-to-late 1920s and ending dates ranging from the early-to-mid-1940s. Members of the Silent Generation currently range from 75 to 92 years of age with the oldest members born in 1925 and the trailing youngest born in 1942.
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Terminology
While there were many civil rights leaders, the "Silents" are called that because many focused on their careers rather than on activism, and people in it were largely encouraged to conform with social norms. As young adults during the McCarthy Era, many members of the Silent Generation grew to feel it was dangerous to speak out. Time magazine coined the term "Silent Generation" in a November 5, 1951 article entitled "The Younger Generation," and the term has remained ever since. The Time article said that the ambitions of this generation had shrunk, but that it had learned to make the best of bad situations. The name was originally applied to people in the United States and Canada but has been applied as well to those in Western Europe, Australia and South America. It includes most of those who fought during the Korean War. In the United States, the generation was comparatively small because the financial insecurity of the 1930s and the war in the early 1940s caused people to have fewer children.
They have also been named the "Lucky Few" in the 2008 book The Lucky Few: Between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom, by Elwood D. Carlson PhD, the Charles B. Nam Professor in Sociology of Population at Florida State University. Carlson notes that this was the first generation in American history to be smaller than the generation that preceded them. He calls the people of this generation "The Lucky Few" because even though they were born during the Great Depression and World War II, they moved into adulthood during the relatively prosperous 1950s and early 1960s. For men who served in the Korean War, their military service was not marked by high casualties as much as the previous generation. The Lucky Few also had higher employment rates than the generations before and after them, as well as better health and earlier retirement. African Americans in this generation also did better than earlier generations in education and employment. Neil Howe writing for Forbes describes the Silent Generation as those born 1925-1942. Pew Research Center defines the generation as being born from 1928 to 1945.
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Notable figures
The generation includes many political and civil rights leaders such as Elizabeth II, Martin Luther King, Jr., Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI, The 14th Dalai Lama, Malcolm X, Michael Dukakis, John McCain, Walter Mondale, Dick Cheney, Bernie Sanders, Robert F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Silvio Berlusconi, Jim Bolger, Jacques Chirac, Jean Chretien, Joe Clark, F.W. de Klerk, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Malcolm Fraser, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bob Hawke, John Howard, Saddam Hussein, Helmut Kohl, Paul Martin, Brian Mulroney, Manuel Noriega, Ron Paul, Bill Rowling, Gloria Steinem, Margaret Thatcher, John Turner, Boris Yeltsin, Yasser Arafat, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Simeon Sakskoburggotski, Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, Slobodan Milo?evi?, Madeleine Albright, Warren Christopher, Roman Herzog, Zhelyu Zhelev, Petar Mladenov, Ariel Sharon, Václav Havel.
It includes such writers and artists as George Carlin, Julie Andrews, Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, Mary Tyler Moore, Rudolf Nureyev, Vanessa Redgrave, Debbie Reynolds, Shirley Temple, Gene Wilder, Warren Beatty, James Dean, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rock Hudson, Sal Mineo, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds, Little Richard, Harry Belafonte, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Bo Diddley, B.B. King, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, George Takei, Johnny Cash, Stephen Sondheim, James Brown, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., The Beatles, J.J. Cale, Sam Cooke, Bobby Darin, Neil Diamond, Lonnie Donegan, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Buddy Holly, Kris Kristofferson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Mathis, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Charley Pride, Johnnie Ray, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Neil Sedaka, Dusty Springfield, Tina Turner, Frank Zappa, Quincy Jones, Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Elvis Presley, Richard Pryor, Dave Allen, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Lenny Bruce, John Byner, Michael Caine, Don Rickles, Johnny Carson, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Bill Cosby, Frank Gorshin, Jerry Lewis, Jackie Mason, Dudley Moore, Joan Rivers, Flip Wilson, and the Beat Generation, Noam Chomsky and Richard Rorty.
Depending on the dates used, the generation produced no United States presidents. However, it did produce Vice Presidents Dick Cheney (born 1941) and Walter Mondale (born 1928) and other politicians like Secretaries of State Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright. Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were born in what is sometimes considered to be the last year of the preceding G.I. Generation (1924), while Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump were all born near the beginning of the Baby Boom.
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