BIOGRAPHY George Catlett Marshall Secretary of State,  Term of Appointment: 01/08/1947 to 01/20/1949

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• Born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1880;
• Graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1901;
• Married Elizabeth Carter Coles in 1902 (died 1927) ;
• Served in the United States Army 1901-1945, attaining the rank of general of the Army; saw overseas service in World War I;
• Married Katherine Boyce (Tupper) Brown in 1930;
• Chief of Staff of the Army 1939-1945;
• Participated in the various World War II conferences of President Roosevelt with Prime Minister Churchill and with Marshal Stalin and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek;
• Accompanied President Truman to the Potsdam Conference in 1945;
• Special representative of the President to China with the rank of ambassador 1945-1947;
• Commissioned Secretary of State in President Truman's Cabinet January 8, 1947, entered upon his duties January 21, 1947, and served until January 20, 1949;
• As Secretary of State, was United States member of the Council of Foreign Ministers at Moscow and at London in 1947, and put forward the "Marshall Plan" for European economic recovery the same year;
• President of the American National Red Cross 1949-1950;
• Secretary of Defense 1950-1951;
• Retired from public life;
• Lived in Leesburg, Virginia, until his death in 1959.