Descendants of Patrick Gullion of Gallatin Co., KY - GullionFamily.org

Generation 7 (con't)Provost Marshall General and later Administrator fo NRA for the territory of Hawaii.From 1937 to 1941 he was Judge Advocate General. He was Army ProvostMarshall General during World War II. He attained the rank of Major General andserved briefly on General Dwight Eisenhower's staff in Europe.Source of following: http://www.uky.edu/Alumni/alumnihall/gullionAW.htmAllen Wyant GullionBorn in Carrollton, Ky., on December 14, 1880. Army Officer. University ofKentucky, LL.B., 1914. Died, June 19, 1946.He was Judge Advocate General and Provost Marshal of the United States Army.He earned the B.A. degree at Centre College in 1901, and later received the B.S. inMilitary Tactics degree from the United States Military Academy (1905). He returnedto Kentucky to pursue a law degree, which awarded by the University in 1914. TheUniversity of Kentucky awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1942.He also received honorary LL.D. degrees from the University of Hawaii (1935), andCenter College (1939).He attained the rank of Major General in the United States Army.He was given his first command as a Second Lieutenant in 1905, and commandedthe 2nd Kentucky Infantry on the Mexican border in 1916; promoted temporarily toLieutenant Colonel during World War I. He returned to UK as a Professor of MilitaryScience and Tactics (1912-14). He served as Chief of Mobilization Division in theOffice of the Provost Marshal, National Selective Service, Washington, D. C., in1917.In 1918, he was Judge Advocate of the 2nd Corps, AEF; legal adviser to General R.L. Bullard, Governor's Island, New York, 1919-24, and was with the Office of theJudge Advocate General, Washington, 1928-30, as Chief of the Military AffairsDivision.In 1929, he was the Senior War Department Representative to a GenevaConference on the formulation of a code for POW'S. He was Senior JudgeAdvocate for the Hawaiian Department, 1932-33, and in 1938 was the sole U.S.Delegate to the Congress of Juridical Experts, Luxembourg. He was the Senior WarDepartment Representative and Delegate of the American and Federal BarAssociations at the first convention of the Inter-American Bar Association, inHavana, in 1941.He was Deputy Administrator for NRA, Territory of Hawaii, 1933-35, and returned toWashington in the latter year to serve as Chief of the Military Affairs Division andAssistant Judge Advocate General, until 1937. He was promoted to Major Generalthat year and named Judge Advocate General. He was Provost Marshal July 31,1941 to April 28, 1944. He retired in 1944 after serving briefly in France.He was honorary President of the Kentucky Society of Washington. His honors alsoincluded the Distinguished Service Medal, with oak leaf clusters, and the Legion ofMerit. He also was given an award by Ecuador.ii.Allen Wyant Gullion was named to the Hall of Distinguished Alumni in February1965.CARROLL HANKS GULLION (son of Edmund Asbury Gullion and Nancy Atha Hanks)was born on 25 Feb 1883 in Carrollton, Carroll Co., KY. He died on 06 Feb 1955 inHenry Co., KY. He married (1) WINIFRED BROUGHTON. He married (2) JOSEPHINEWYANT on 09 Jun 1928. She was born in 1883. She died in 1950.78