Research Catalog

Title

Secretaries of war and secretaries of the army : portraits and biographical sketches / by William Gardner Bell.

Author

Bell, William Gardner.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army, 2003.

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Details

Description

xi, 187 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits; 27 cm

Subject

• United States. Department of the Army > Officials and employees > Biography
• United States. War Department > Officials and employees > Biography
• United States. Department of the Army
• United States. War Department
• Cabinet officers > United States > Biography
• Cabinet officers > United States > Portraits
• Armed Forces > Officials and employees
• Cabinet officers
• Employees
• United States

Genre/Form

• portraits.
• Biographies
• Portraits
• Biographies.
• Portraits.

Note

• Shipping list no.: 2004-0243-P.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-187).

Contents

Introduction -- Secretaries of war. Henry Knox ; Timothy Pickering ; James McHenry ; Samuel Dexter ; Henry Dearborn ; William Eustis ; John Armstrong ; James Monroe ; William Harris Crawford ; John Caldwell Calhoun ; James Barbour ; Peter Buell Porter ; John Henry Eaton ; Lewis Cass ; Joel Roberts Poinsett ; John Bell ; John Canfield Spencer ; James Madison Porter ; William Wilkins ; William Learned Marcy ; George Washington Crawford ; Charles Magill Conrad ; Jefferson Davis ; John Buchanan Floyd ; Joseph Holt ; Simon Cameron ; Edwin McMasters Stanton ; John McAllister Schofield ; John Aaron Rawlins ; William Worth Belknap ; Alphonso Taft ; James Donald Cameron ; George Washington McCrary ; Alexander Ramsey ; Robert Todd Lincoln ; William Crowninshield Endicott ; Redfield Proctor ; Stephen Benton Elkins ; Daniel Scott Lamont ; Russell Alexander Alger ; Elihu Root ; William Howard Taft ; Luke Edward Wright ; Jacob McGavock Dickinson ; Henry Lewis Stimson ; Lindley Miller Garrison ; Newton Diehl Baker ; John Wingate Weeks ; Dwight Filley Davis ; James William Good ; Patrick Jay Hurley ; George Henry Dern ; Harry Hines Woodring ; Henry Lewis Stimson ; Robert Porter Patterson -- Secretaries of the army. Kenneth Claiborne Royall ; Gordon Gray ; Frank Pace, Jr. ; Robert Ten Broeck Stevens ; Wilber Marion Brucker ; Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr. ; Cyrus Roberts Vance ; Stephen Ailes ; Stanley Rogers Resor ; Robert Frederick Froehlke ; Howard Hollis Callaway ; Martin Richard Hoffmann ; Clifford Leopold Alexander, Jr. ; John Otho Marsh, Jr. ; Michael Patrick William Stone ; Togo Dennis West, Jr. ; Louis Edward Caldera ; Thomas Eugene White -- Appendixes. Secretaries of War Ad Interim and Acting Secretaries of the Army ; Chronological list of Presidents of the United States, Secretaries of War, and Secretaries of the Army.

LCCN

2003051479

OCLC

• ocm52133034
• 52133034
• SCSB-1337947

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library