US Army Lieutenant General. A combat veteran of World Wars I and II, he rose in rank to become the Commander of 1st US Army. He attended the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia and graduated in 1914 and two years later he was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant of Infantry in the US Army. During World War I he saw combat action in France with the 23rd Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division. In 1919 he returned to the US and up to 1935 served in various assignments and professional military schools, including the US Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Texas, and the US Army War College at Washington Barracks in Washington DC (at the time). In 1935 he became Professor of Military Science at the Virginia Military Institute and served as its Commandant. From 1940 until 1941 he was assigned to the US War Department in Washington DC and was promoted to the rank of colonel and was further assigned as Assistant Commandant of the US Army Infantry School. In early 1942, after the US entered World War II, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and became Commanding General of the Puerto Rican Department and in November of that year he was promoted to the rank of major general and given command the US Army's 100th Division at Fort Jackson, South Carolina and deployed with them to the European Theater of Operations (France) in October 1944, as part of the 7th US Army's 6th Corps. He saw combat action in Northeast France and the Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central European Campaigns. After the surrender of Germany in May 1945, he remained in Europe and became the Inspector General for the US Army European Command. In May 1947 he became Commander of the US Constabulary, the post-war occupation police force in West Germany, returning to the US in 1948 to command the US Army Infantry Center and School at Fort Benning, Georgia. In 1951 he returned to the US Army European Command as the Director of Intelligence, also serving as Commander of US Army 7th Corps. In 1953 he returned to the US was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, and took command of 1st US Army at Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York and he retired at this position in November 1954 with 38 years of continuous military service. Among his military and foreign decorations and awards include the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star (with one oak leaf cluster), the World War I Victory Medal, the post-World War I Army of Occupation Medal, the American Defense Service Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (with three campaign stars), the World War II Victory Medal, the post-World War II Army of Occupation Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, and the French Croix de guerre. He died at the age of 83.