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"Marshall Day" at V.M.I., May 1.5, 19.51 viii DEFENSE DEPARTMENT PHOTO
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Compiled and edited by Clarence E. Wunderlin, Jr., assistant editor of The Papers ofGeorge Catlett Marshall General of the Army George Catlett Marshall was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, on December 31, 1880, to George Catlett Marshall (1845-1909) and Laura (Bradford) Marshall (1846-1928), both of Augusta, Kentucky. Marshall had one brother, Stuart Bradford Marshall (1875-1956), and one sister, Mrs. John J. (Marie Louise) Singer (1876-1962). He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, in 1901. On February 11, 1902, soon after he received his commission in the army, Marshall married Elizabeth Carter Coles (1874-1927) of Lexington, Virginia. After duty in the Philippines and the continental United States, he served in France during World War I, initially with the First Division and eventually on the staff of General John J. Pershing. During the interwar years, he served as aide to Pershing, with troops in China, at Fort Benning, and other posts in the United States. Three years after his first wife's death, Marshall married Katherine Boyce Tupper Brown (1882-1978) of Baltimore, Maryland, on October 15, 1930. Marshall acquired three stepchildren by this marriage: Mrs. James J. (Molly Brown) Winn (1912- ); Clifton Stevenson Brown (1914-1952); and Lieutenant Allen Tupper Brown (1916-1944), killed in action near Anzio, Italy. Appointed U.S. Army Chief of Staffon September 1,1939, Marshall served in that capacity until November 1945. After his special mission to China, 1945-1946, President Truman appointed Marshall Secretary of State in 1947. In 1949, he became President of the American Red Cross, only to be recalled to government service in 1950as Secretary of Defense. Marshall received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his initiation of the European Recovery Act. He died on October 16, 1959, at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, D.C. PROFESSIONAL CAREER *: Duty with the 30th Infantry in the Philippine Islands, 1902- I903 *: Duty at Fort Reno, Oklahoma, 1903-1906 (detached service for mapping, Texas, summer, 1905) *: Student (1906-1908) and instructor (1908-1910), Army Service Schools (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas) *: Inspector-Instructor, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia (Boston, Massachusetts), 1911-1912 *: Duty with the 4th Infantry (Fort Logan Roots, Arkansas; Fort Snelling, Minnesota; Texas City, Texas), 1912-1913 *: Duty in the Philippine Islands; aide-de-camp to Major General Hunter Liggett, 1913-1916 *: Aide-de-camp to Major General J. Franklin Bell (San Francisco, California; Governors Island, New York), 1916-1917 *: Duty with the A.E.F, France: assistant chief of staff, G-3, First Division (June 1917-June 1918); G-.3 section, G.H.Q. (June 1918-July 1918); assistant chief of staff, G-.3, First Army (October 1918-November 1918); chief of staff, Eighth ix
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