Barksdale Hamlett
| Barksdale Hamlett | |
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| Born |
December 30, 1908 Hopkinsville, Kentucky |
| Died | August 26, 1979 (aged 70) Washington, D.C. |
| Place of burial | West Point Cemetery |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Years of service | 1930-1964 |
| Rank |
 General
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| Service number | 0-18143 |
| Commands held | Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army |
| Battles/wars |
World War II Korean War Cold War |
| Awards |
Distinguished Service Medal Silver Star Legion of Merit (2) Bronze Star Medal |
| Other work | President, Norwich University |
Barksdale Hamlett, Jr. (December 30, 1908 – August 26, 1979) was a United States Army four-star general who served as commandant of the American sector of Berlin during the 1958 Berlin crisis and as vice chief of staff of the U.S. Army from 1962 to 1964. He later served as President of Norwich University in Vermont.
He was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky to Barksdale Hamlett, Sr. and Daisey C. Hamlett. When he was three, his family moved to Frankfort, Kentucky when his father was elected superintendent of public instruction for the state of Kentucky, but later relocated to Columbia, Kentucky. As a junior at Adair County High School, he received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis from Congressman Ralph Gilbert, to begin in 1925. However, Gilbert revoked the appointment after traveling to the Far East that summer on a Navy cruiser and being appalled by what he considered to be excessive drinking by the ship's officers during port calls. Instead, Gilbert substituted an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point for the following year. Hamlett spent the intervening year at Lindsey Wilson Junior College and entered the Military Academy on July 1, 1926, where he roomed with future four-star general Hamilton H. Howze. Graduating in 1930 in the middle of his class, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the field artillery.
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