Martin Richard Hoffmann

Martin Richard Hoffmann
Martin Richard Hoffmann

12th United States Secretary of the Army
In office August 5, 1975 – February 13, 1977
President	Gerald R. Ford
Personal details
Born	(1932-04-20)April 20, 1932 Stockbridge, Massachusetts^[1]
Died	July 14, 2014(2014-07-14) (aged 82) Warrenton, Virginia
Spouse(s)	Margaret Ann McCabe (1961)
Alma mater	Princeton University (1954)

Martin Richard Hoffmann (April 20, 1932 – July 14, 2014) was a U.S. administrator. He served as the United States Secretary of the Army between 1975 and 1977.^[2]^[3]

Early life

Martin was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on April 20, 1932.^[1]

US Army (Enlisted) Active Duty - (07 September 1954 to 28 November 1955); Rank at separation to accept commission: Sergeant.

US Army (Officer) Active Duty - (29 November 1955 to 29 May 1958); Rank at release from active duty: 1st Lieutenant.

US Army (Officer) Reserve until 22 October 1975; Major at discharge.

Government career

Hoffmann served as general counsel of the Department of Defense, 1974 - 75. He was appointed as Secretary of the Army from August 5, 1975 until February 13, 1977.^[1]

He died of cancer in 2014.^[4]

References

1 2 3 Bell, William Gardner (1992). ""Martin Richard Hoffmann"". Secretaries of War and Secretaries of the Army: Portraits and Biographical Sketches. United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved September 22, 2007.
↑ Langer, Emily (2014-07-23). "Martin R. Hoffmann dies; Army secretary helped guide academy through scandal". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2014-07-27.
↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/us/martin-hoffmann-army-secretary-in-1970s-dies-at-82.html
↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/us/martin-hoffmann-army-secretary-in-1970s-dies-at-82.html

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Government offices
Preceded by Howard H. Callaway	United States Secretary of the Army August 1975 – January 1977	Succeeded by Clifford L. Alexander, Jr.

U.S. Secretaries of War and the Army

U.S. Department
of War
(1789–1949)

Secretaries of War	B. Lincoln Knox Pickering McHenry Dexter Dearborn Eustis Armstrong Monroe W. Crawford Calhoun Barbour P. Porter Eaton Cass Poinsett Bell Spencer J. Porter Wilkins Marcy G. Crawford Conrad J. Davis Floyd Holt S. Cameron Stanton Schofield Rawlins Belknap A. Taft J. Cameron McCrary Ramsey R. Lincoln Endicott Proctor Elkins Lamont Alger Root W. Taft Wright Dickinson Stimson Garrison Baker Weeks D. Davis Good Hurley Dern Woodring Stimson Patterson Royall

Assistant Secretaries of War	Scott Watson Tucker Wolcott Dana Eckert Grant Doe Meiklejohn Sanger Oliver Breckinridge Ingraham Crowell Williams Wainwright D. Davis MacNider Hurley Payne Woodring L. Johnson Patterson McCloy Petersen

U.S. Department
of the Army
(1949–present)

Secretaries of the Army	Royall Gray Pace Stevens Brucker Stahr Vance Ailes Resor Froehlke Callaway Hoffmann C. Alexander Marsh Stone West Caldera White Harvey Geren McHugh

Under Secretaries of the Army	Draper Gray Voorhees A. Alexander Bendetsen E. Johnson Slezak Finucane Milton Ailes Ignatius Resor McGiffert Beal BeLieu Staudt Augustine LaBerge Ambrose Stone Shannon Reeder Walker Rostker Dahlberg Brownlee Geren Ford Westphal Carson Murphy

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