Amos Marcus Gailliard Jr. (September 26, 1928 – April 8, 2014) was the son of famed musician and trombone player, Amos Gailliard. As a member of the United States military, he rose from the rank of private to
brigadier general.
Personal life
The youngest of three children born to Anna Govan and Amos Gailliard, Sr in New York City. Amos Gailliard, Jr. fondly referred to as "Junnie" by his two sisters, Julia and Jessie (deceased). In his post college years, would marry Barbara Jean Miles of Harlem, NY and adopted three children Michael Dallum (Michael Stephen Gailliard) and then later Cathy Evans (Donna Lynn Gailliard) and finally, Donna Marie Wilson (Tracey Michelle Gailliard-Williams). He would also serve as the President of the Zeta Zeta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha in 1984. In the late 1960s, according to How East New York Became a Ghetto, he was a program manager for Model Cities East New York. He would work as a Project Manager for IBM.
Military career
In 1951, he graduated from
South Carolina State University and is a member of
Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. () is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social studies club organized in the 1905–1906 school year at Cornell University but later evolved int ...
. He was listed in Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia due to his military career. He would rise to the rank of Master Sgt before becoming an officer.
Brigadier General Amos M. Gailliard Jr. served on active duty during the
Korean War in the
United States Army and as a Major transferred into the
National Guard in the State of New York. He was commander of the 14th Group,
New York Guard which was upgraded to brigade status under his leadership and provided support operations at the
TWA flight 800 disaster recovery site. As a Col he would serve in HHC, Army Division, Civil Affairs as part of the 14th GRP (LI). On August 1995, he was promoted to
brigadier general in the New York Guard.
On February 28, 2005, he was awarded a Distinguished Alumnus award from Dr.
Andrew Hugine Jr.
Andrew Hugine Jr. is an American educator and academic administrator serving as the 11th president of Alabama A&M University. On June 26, 2009, his hiring for the role was authorised. Hugine's contract was renewed by the AAMU Board of Trustees t ...
the President of
South Carolina State University. On October 2, 2008, he presented the
Order of Saint Maurice
The Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus ( it, Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro) (abbreviated OSSML) is a Roman Catholic dynastic order of knighthood bestowed by the royal House of Savoy. It is the second-oldest order of knighthood in the w ...
to LTC. John W. Peterkin. Amos died on April 8, 2014. He was honored by the 77th Infantry Division at the Fort Totten Chapel upon his death in 2014.
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General Amos M. Gailliard Jr. awarded the Distinguished Alumnus award
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1928 births
2014 deaths
South Carolina State University alumni
United States Army personnel of the Korean War
African-American United States Army personnel
United States Army officers
New York National Guard personnel
People from Nassau County, New York
Recipients of the Order of Saint Maurice
21st-century African-American people
African Americans in the Korean War