- Marine service
1898-1931: Boxer Rebellion, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, World
War I, China
- Two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winner (Veracruz 1914 and Haiti 1915)
- Philadelphia Director of Public Safety 1924-25 (on leave from USMC)
- 1931 ordered arrested
and court martialed over comments on Mussolini
- Ranking major general of the USMC, but passed over as commandant, retired
- 1932 Bonus March
- War is a Racket! (1935) based on
lecture tours
