Claude Adams

Claude Mitchell Adams (born October 2, 1894 in Humboldt , Tennessee , † March 26, 1958 ) was an American brigadier general in the US Army .

Life

Adams, whose father Jeremiah Robert Adams as a soldier in the Confederate States Army at the American Civil War took part, completed after the school attendance officer training and was followed by various uses as an officer in the US Army. He was from 1940 to 1941 aide-de-camp of General George C. Marshall and was as such on March 13, 1940, Lieutenant Colonel (Lieutenant-Colonel) transported. From 1941 to 1942 he was a lecturer in military science and tactics at the Staunton Military Academy , founded in 1860 , which was an official unit of the training corps for youth reserve officers JROTC (Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps) since 1917 . After teaching military science and tactics at the Augusta Military Academy , which had also been part of the JROTC program since 1919 , he became a military attaché at the embassy in Brazil in 1942 . In this use, on 9 April 1943, its promotion to Brigadier (Brigadier-General) . He held the post of military attaché in Brazil until September 15, 1944, when he retired from military service.

His marriage to Ruth Cornelia Graves on September 14, 1921, remained childless. After his death from a myocardial infarction , he was buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery in his hometown.

Web links

• Claude Adams in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Entry in general.dk