Thomas W. Herren
| Thomas Wade Herren | |
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| Born |
August 9, 1895 Dadeville, Alabama |
| Died | June 4, 1985 (aged 89) Washington, D.C. |
| Place of burial | Arlington National Cemetery |
| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Rank |
 Lieutenant general
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| Unit | 78th Field Artillery Regiment 3rd Cavalry Regiment 8th Cavalry Regiment (United States) 6th Cavalry Regiment (United States)  70th Infantry Division Fourth United States Army
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| Commands held |
106th Cavalry Regiment (United States) United States Army Cavalry School 70th Division (United States) Northern Area Command - U.S. Army of Occupation, Germany Korean Communications Zone Chief of Special Services, Dept. of the Army  Military District of Washington First United States ArmyU.S. Military Representative to the United Nations |
| Battles/wars |
World War I World War II Korean War |
| Awards | Army Distinguished Service Medal |
Thomas Wade Herren (August 9, 1895 – June 4, 1985) was a U.S. Army officer and combat commander whose career spanned from World War I to the post-Korean War era.
Herren was born in Dadeville, Alabama, on August 9, 1895. He was graduated from Tallapoosa Country High School in 1914 and from the University of Alabama in 1917. After a few months as a high school teacher in Gadsden, Alabama, he enrolled as an officer candidate in the first officers training camp at Fort McPherson, Georgia in May 1917. He was commissioned a provisional second lieutenant in the Regular Army on August 15, 1917 and assigned to the 78th Field Artillery at Fort Bliss, Texas. After a brief course at the Field Artillery School, he accompanied his regiment to France as a battery executive officer and then commander until it was demobilized.
After World War I, he was troop commander (Troop A) in the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, and then a recruiting officer in Springfield, Massachusetts. His area included all of New England within the First Corps Area, headquartered in Boston.
Herren attended the Troop Officer Course at the United States Army Cavalry School in 1926-27. After graduation he returned to Fort Bliss, assigned to the 8th Cavalry Regiment, serving as a troop commander and regimental adjutant. Additionally, he was captain of the horse show team and a noted member of the post's pre-war polo team. He participated in maneuvers in the Big Bend area of Texas, trained remounts and cavalry recruits and assisted in the care and feeding of thousands of Mexicans whose homes has been inundated in the 1927 flood of the Rio Grande. It was while serving here that he met and married his wife, Lillian Hague Corcoran, the daughter of a cavalry officer.
From 1930 to 1935 he was assigned to the 6th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, again as a troop commander (Troop F) and regimental adjutant. He continued his participation in this regiment’s horse show team (as its captain) and polo team. He participated with his troop in annual maneuvers with the United States Army Infantry School students at Fort Benning, Georgia.
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