Jay Garner
Jay Montgomery Garner (born April 15, 1938 in Arcadia , Florida , United States ) is an American officer, former Lieutenant General of the United States Army and government official. After the invasion of the US-led Allied forces, he was briefly the first civil administration head of Iraq in 2003 .
Garner entered the Army and graduated from Florida State University . In 1962 he received a degree as a historian. He quickly made a career in the American armed forces and was twice in Vietnam as a soldier .
After serving in the military, he was president of the Californian defense company SY Coleman , a subsidiary of L-3 Communications, which specialize in electronic missile control systems, until January 2003 .
A close friend of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld , he became the first civilian administrator in Iraq after the invasion in March 2003 . As director of the "Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance" ( ORHA ) he was responsible for regulating civil affairs in the immediate post-war period. His priority should be to rebuild basic structures and to restructure Iraqi ministries. After only a few weeks in office, he was replaced by Paul Bremer on May 11, 2003 .
Web links
- Jay Garner in the nndb (English)
- Steffen Leidel: A doer for Baghdad . Former US General Jay Garner is said to head the civil interim government in Iraq. He is considered to be a sociable doer type. A portrait. In: Deutsche Welle . April 16, 2003.
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| SURNAME | Garner, Jay |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Garner, Jay Montgomery (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American officer and government official, first civil administrator for Iraq |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arcadia , Florida , United States |