William F. Marquat

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Frederic Marquat (March 17, 1894 - May 30, 1959) was a Major General in the US Army. Prior to his service in the military, Marquat was a reporter for The Seattle Times. Prior to the Japanese invasion of 1941, Marquat served with the Office of the Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines, as the chief engineering advisor.

Marquat was born in St. Louis, Missouri to William and Sara (Layden) Marquat.

The Marquat Library was formed, in 1969, at Fort Gordon, Georgia, at the US Army Civil Affairs School. The library was moved, in 1973 when the school moved to Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

World War I -- Coast Artillery Office
World War II
- Staff officer to General MacArthur
- Commander of the 14th Anti-Aircraft Command
Post World War II
- Chair of the Allied Council for Japan
- 1945 - 1952 -- Head of the Economics and Science Section General Headquarters for the Supreme Allied Powers - Tokyo, Japan
- 1952 - 1955 -- Chief of Civil Affairs and Military Government
- 1955 -- retires

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../w/i/l/William_F._Marquat_b16a.html"

Categories: 1894 births | 1968 deaths | United States Army generals

Advanced Search include all of these words: include this exact phrase: include at least one of these words: exclude these words: language: file type: last updated: limit domain to: that link to: related to:

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links
This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.