Samuel D. Sturgis Jr. (1861-1933)
Lieutenant General Samuel Davis Sturgis III (July 16, 1897 – July 5, 1964), also known as Samuel D. Sturgis Jr., was a senior Officer (armed forces), officer of the United States Army who served as List of United States Army Corps of Engineers Chiefs of Engineers, Chief of Engineers during the Cold War. Early life Samuel Davis Sturgis III was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and came from a military family. Both his father, Samuel D. Sturgis Jr. (1861–1933), Samuel D. Sturgis Jr., and grandfather, also named Samuel D. Sturgis, were United States Military Academy, West Point graduates and Major General, major generals. Career Sturgis graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1918. As a junior engineer officer, he taught mathematics at the academy for four years. In 1926, he was ordered to the Philippines, where he served as Adjutant of the 14th Engineers. His strategical studies of the islands over a three-year period developed knowledge he used later when he ret ...
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