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Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886-1945), American Army general, son of the Confederate general and Kentucky governor of the same name; built Alaska's WWII defenses, commanded Tenth Army at Okinawa, and was the highest-ranking U.S. officer killed by enemy action in the war.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Stanley A. McChrystal, retired U.S. Army four-star general; former JSOC commander and ISAF commander in Afghanistan; resigned in 2010 after Rolling Stone's 'The Runaway General'; now leads McChrystal Group and teaches at Yale.
Stephen J. Townsend
Stephen J. Townsend (born 1959) is a retired U.S. Army four-star general, fifth commander of U.S. Africa Command 2019-2022, earlier TRADOC chief and commander of the anti-ISIS Operation Inherent Resolve coalition.
Sterling Price
Sterling Price (1809–1867), Missouri governor 1853–1857 and major general of the Missouri State Guard and Confederate Army, won Wilson's Creek and Lexington in 1861, lost Pea Ridge, Iuka, Corinth, and the 1864 Missouri raid at Westport, then exiled to Mexico rather than surrender.
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jonathan Jackson (1824–1863), Confederate lieutenant general commanding the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Nicknamed at First Manassas, famed for the 1862 Valley Campaign and Harpers Ferry, mortally wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (Theodore Roosevelt III, 1887-1944), eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was an Army brigadier general and Medal of Honor recipient who landed in the first wave on Utah Beach on D-Day and served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Puerto Rico, and Governor General of the Philippines.
Thomas Carden
Thomas M. Carden Jr. is a U.S. Army National Guard general, first four-star Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau (2026), formerly Adjutant General of Georgia and Deputy Commander of U.S. Northern Command.
Tommy Franks
Tommy Franks, also known as General Tommy Ray Franks, is the retired four-star U.S. Army general who commanded CENTCOM from 2000 to 2003, leading the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, before retiring in 2003 and publishing the memoir American Soldier.
Vernon A. Walters
Vernon A. Walters (1917–2002), U.S. Army lieutenant general, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence 1972–1976, and Reagan-era Ambassador to the United Nations and West Germany; polyglot interpreter for five presidents.
Walter Bedell Smith
Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961), 'Beetle' Smith, was Eisenhower's chief of staff at AFHQ and SHAEF, signed the German surrender at Reims, then served as U.S. Ambassador to the USSR, Director of Central Intelligence 1950–53, and Under Secretary of State.
Walter Krueger
Walter Krueger (1881–1967), German-born US Army four-star general, rose from private to command the Sixth Army in the Southwest Pacific, leading New Guinea amphibious operations and the Leyte and Luzon campaigns under MacArthur.
Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark, retired US Army four-star general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe 1997-2000, led the 1999 Kosovo air campaign, was relieved early, and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination.
William B. Travis
William Barret Travis (1809-1836) was the lieutenant colonel commanding the Alamo garrison during the 1836 siege, known for the Anahuac Disturbances and the "Victory or Death" letter; not to be confused with other Travis namesakes.
William S. Harney
William Selby Harney (1800–1889), 'Mad Bear,' was a U.S. Army general of the Seminole, Mexican-American, and Plains Indian wars, the Pig War commander, and Department of the West chief relieved in 1861.
William Westmoreland
William Childs Westmoreland (1914–2005), American four-star general, commanded U.S. forces in Vietnam as MACV chief 1964–1968, built forces to over 500,000, pursued attrition and search-and-destroy, was replaced by Abrams after Tet, later Army chief of staff.
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (1784–1850), 12th U.S. president and Whig general nicknamed Old Rough and Ready; Mexican-American War hero of Buena Vista, slaveholder opposing slavery's expansion, died in office July 1850.
Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779–1813), American army officer and explorer of the Louisiana Territory's Mississippi and Southwest routes, namesake of Pikes Peak, captured by Spain in 1807, killed at the Battle of York in 1813.