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Colonel
Colonel (pronounced /ˈkɜrnəl/) (Col or COL) is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with corresponding ranks existing in almost every country in the world. It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures. A colonel is typically in charge of a regiment in the army....
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919; pronounced /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/) was the 26th President of the United States. He is well remembered for his energetic persona, his range of interests and achievements, his leadership of the Progressive...
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Elmar Mäder
Elmar Theodor Mäder (born 28 July 1963) was the thirty-third and former Commandant of the Pontifical Swiss Guards. He holds the rank of colonel in the Guards.
Mäder was born in Niederuzwil, Switzerland, Europe. He grew up in Zuzwil in the canton of...
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Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant) (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was general-in-chief of the Union Army from 1864 to 1869 during the American Civil War and the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
The son of an...
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Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at the age of 21, where he became a...
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Francis Grevemberg
Francis Carroll Grevemberg (June 4, 1914 - November 24, 2008), was the superintendent of the Louisiana State Police from 1952 to 1955, best remembered for his fight against organized crime.
Grevemberg was born in Biloxi in Harrison County,...
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- 1951
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Józef Haller de Hallenburg
Józef Haller de Hallenburg (August 13, 1873 – June 4, 1960) was a Lieutenant General of the Polish Army, legionary in Polish Legions, harcmistrz (the highest Scouting instructor rank in Poland), the President of The Polish Scouting and Guiding...
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- Apr 7, 1918
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- Mar 14, 1915
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Vincent Potter
Vincent Potter (c.1614–1661) was an army officer in Parliament's army during the English Civil War and was one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.
Potter was born in Warwickshire. In 1635 as a member of the Massachusetts Bay Company he...
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- 1660
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- Jun 1649
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Stephen Rose Gilkyson
Stephen Rose Gilkyson (1832 – 1892) was a Union Army officer that served in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. He commanded first the 6th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry as a lieutenant colonel (most notably at the Battle of...
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Lawrence Morris
Colonel Lawrence J. Morris is a lawyer and an officer in the United States Army.
Morris graduated from Marquette University's law school in 1982. Morris had previously earned a double major at Marquette in Political Science and Journalism.
In 1997...
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John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford
Lieutenant-General John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford (4 October 1702 – 25 December 1749) was a Scottish peer and the first colonel of the Black Watch on its formation in 1739.
Lindsay was commissioned into the 3rd Foot Guards in 1726, but later...
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