John A. Hull

John A. Hull

John Adley Hull (born August 7, 1874 in Bloomfield , Davis County , Iowa , † April 17, 1944 in Washington, DC ) was an American military judge .

Hull was born in Bloomfield, Iowa in 1874, the son of later Congressman John Albert Tiffin Hull and his wife Emma Gregory Hull. He studied law at the University of Iowa .

When the Spanish-American War broke out, Hull joined the Iowa National Guard . As a judge advocate , most recently with the rank of lieutenant colonel, he was responsible for the military justice of American volunteers . In 1900 he was accepted into the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the regular armed forces with the rank of major .

From 1913 to 1921 he served as a legal advisor to Francis Burton Harrison , the Governor General of the Philippines . In 1924, Calvin Coolidge appointed him Judge Advocate General of the Army with the rank of major general. He held this post until his retirement in 1928. In 1927 it had been suggested that he would succeed Leonard Wood as Governor General of the Philippines, but Coolidge appointed former Secretary of War and later Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson in his place .

From February 1930 to May 1932, Hull was legal advisor to Stimson's successor, Dwight F. Davis . President Herbert C. Hoover appointed Hull as associate judge to the Supreme Court of the Philippines. After the Philippines became autonomous as the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935 , Hull resigned on February 1, 1936, as Philippine President Manuel Quezon ruled that all judges must be Filipinos.

John A. Hull married Norma Bowler King in 1919, from whom he divorced in 1934.

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