The recipient of four Silver Stars, forty-two Air Medals, two Purple Hearts, and numerous other military honors, this Lieutenant General in the United States Army served in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in the late 1940s and was subsequently deployed to Japan. After returning to the United States, he studied at Columbia University in New York City.
After completing his active combat assignments, he held office as Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy and, later, as Public Safety Commissioner of his home state of Mississippi.
A native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, he died at the age of eighty-seven in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
In the late 1970s, he was succeeded by Four-Star General Andrew Goodpaster as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
