Tasker H. Bliss

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General Tasker H. Bliss

Tasker Howard Bliss GCMG (born December 31, 1853 in Lewisburg , Pennsylvania , † November 9, 1930 in Washington, DC ) was a general in the US Army and the chief of staff of the United States Army from September 22, 1917 to May 18, 1918 He served as an officer in the Army from 1875 to 1920.

biography

The United States delegation ( John J. Pershing , General Tasker H. Bliss , US President Woodrow Wilson, Edward Mandell House , Henry White, Robert Lansing ) signs the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. - National Portrait Gallery (Washington) , Smithsonian Institution , NPG.65.83, oil painting on canvas by John Christen Johansen .

Bliss graduated from the Military Academy (USMA) in West Point (New York) and graduated as the eighth best of his class on June 16, 1875.

In 1885 he became a teacher at the Naval War College , on whose behalf he traveled to England , Germany and France to learn about military training there. The purpose of the trip was to determine whether military training in the United States provided similar and relevant material.
He took part in the Spanish-American War in Cuba in 1898 . Later in the military, he became the first president of the United States Army War College .

He was from 1875 lieutenant , from 1880 lieutenant , in 1892 Captain from 1898 Major and Lieutenant Colonel in 1902, Brigadier General and in 1915, Major General .

After serving as Assistant Chief of Staff since 1915 , he was named Chief of Staff of the Army in September 1917, succeeding Hugh L. Scott , and on October 6, 1917, by President Woodrow Wilson in the rank of (temporary) four -Star- Generals charged. From November 1917 he represented his country as a permanent representative in the Supreme War Council in Versailles.

In 1919, after the First World War , he was involved as a general and diplomat at the Paris Peace Conference and was one of the signatories of the Versailles Treaty for his nation. From 1930 he was again listed as a general on the pension list.

Bliss was married to Eleanor Emma Anderson (born August 18, 1853 in Lewisburg ( Pennsylvania ), † September 30, 1936 in Washington) since May 24, 1882 ; they had two children together. His wife was well educated, had lived abroad and spoke both French and German in addition to her mother tongue, English .

He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington.

honors and awards

Honors

Awards

literature

  • Frederick Palmer: Bliss, Peacemaker: The Life and Letters of General Tasker Howard Bliss. (New edition), Kessinger Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1-4179-8585-2 .

Web links

Commons : Tasker H. Bliss  - collection of images, videos and audio files

List of participants in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Keilers: Soldier and Statesman: Tasker H. Bliss. US Army Military History Institute, August 24, 2009, accessed June 10, 2012 .
  2. ↑ in the name of the German Empire : The Versailles Treaty (terms of peace; preamble). Ullstein Verlag, June 6, 2006, accessed June 10, 2012 : "General Tasker H. Bliss, United States Military Plenipotentiary to the Supreme War Council"
  3. ↑ Michael Robert Patterson: Tasker Howard Bliss, General, United States Army. Arlington National Cemetery Biography, December 14, 2007; accessed June 11, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Grace Elizabeth Bliss Smith, Ph.D .: Tasker Howard Bliss. Bliss Family History Society, accessed June 11, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Bliss, Tasker H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bliss, Tasker Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American officer, army general, and United States diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Lewisburg , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1930
Place of death Washington, DC