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Pershing rightfully emerged as the most celebrated American hero of the war. Congress honored him by creating a new title, General of the Armies, and he served as Chief of Staff from 1921 to...
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Pershing was born the first of nine children in September 1860 to farmer John Fletcher Pershing and homemaker Ann Elizabeth Thompson. As a teenager, he had to take care of the home and attend school while his father worked as a traveling salesman. In 1880, this brilliant student graduated from Kirksville Normal School with a Bachelor of Science deg...
Pershing started his career serving in the Sixth Cavalry, fighting Native Americans to protect the white settlers. He fought the Geronimo-led Apache in New Mexico and Arizona and he learned Apache dialects and Plains sign language. Pershing taught at the University of Nebraska and used the opportunity to get a law degree in 1893. He was promoted to...
The First World War started after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914, and the United States did not join the war until 1917. Pershing was appointed commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), the U.S. military troop sent to Europe by then-U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. Hew was also promoted from Major General...
In 1919, General Pershing was honored by Congress with the rank of “General of the Armies.” This special honor allowed him to be on “active duty” for the rest of his life and continue to be available for assignments. He was the first American to be bestowed such an honor, although, in 1976, U.S. President Gerald Ford promoted George Washington, our...
In 1905, Pershing married Helen Frances Warren, the daughter of powerful U.S. Senator Francis E. Warren, a Wyoming Republican. By Helen, he fathered four children: Helen, Anne, Warren, and Mary Margaret. On August 27, 1915, his wife and three daughters were killed in a fire incident at their home at the Presidio in San Francisco. It is reported tha...
General Pershing died on July 15, 1948, of congestive heart failure at age 87 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He was laid in state at the United States Capitol rotunda and given a state funeral. The general was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Pershing’s greatest accomplishment was the formation of the American Expeditionary Forces, without his military brilliance and involvement of the Americans in the first world war, the European allies could have been defeated. This American hero mentored officers who became significant figures in the Second World War such as future President Harry S...
Pershing’s son Colonel Francis Warren Pershing served during the Second World War. Warren’s sons John and Richard also served in the Vietnam War; unfortunately, Richard was killed in action on February 17, 1968. Pershing is the only person in the history of the United States to earn the rank of General of the Armies while still alive. The rank, whi...
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May 29, 2018 · People. History. U.S. History: Biographies. John Joseph Pershing. views 3,792,628 updated May 29 2018. John Joseph Pershing. September 13, 1860. Laclede, Missouri. July 15, 1948. Washington, D.C. Military leader. G eneral John Joseph Pershing is most famous for something he never said.
General Pershing led the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. He was made General of the Armies of the United States in 1919. After the war, he prepared a report of the war and made extensive military inspections.
The General of the Armies, John J Pershing (1860-1948) was born in Missouri a year before the War Between the States. One of his earliest memories was of his proudly Unionist, anti-slavery father barricading the house and holding off pro-slavery raiders (when Pershing was four). Loading...
The foremost military leader of his time, John J. "Black Jack" Pershing (1860-1948) served the United States in the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, the Philippines, the Mexican Intervention, and the First World War.
May 23, 2016 · IT WAS THE afternoon of June 16, 1917 when AEF commander John J. “Black Jack” Pershing met with General Henri Philippe Pétain, the hero of Verdun and now commander-in-chief of the French Army.
