Harbord, James G.

Harbord, James G.

▪ United States military officer
in full  James Guthrie Harbord 
born March 21, 1866, Bloomington, Ill., U.S.
died Aug. 20, 1947, Rye, N.Y.

      army officer who served as Gen. John J. Pershing's (Pershing, John J) chief of staff in Europe during World War I.

      Joining the 4th Infantry as a private in 1889, Harbord was commissioned in the cavalry two years later. In 1917 he became a brigadier general, serving as chief of staff of the American Expeditionary Force in France from 1917 to 1918 and again after May 1919. He commanded U.S. troops at the Battle of Belleau Wood (May 1918), the marine brigade near Château-Thierry (June), and the 2nd Division in the Soissons offensive (July).

      After the war Harbord became chief of staff of the U.S. Army (1921–22). He was president (1923) and chairman of the board (1930) of the Radio Corporation of America.

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