Thread by @InteriorMuseum

Each year, @InteriorMuseum places ribbons alongside the official portraits of @Interior secretaries who are veterans of U.S. armed forces. In this thread, we’ll be sharing details of their service with you.

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10th @Interior secretary Jacob Cox was a major general in the Union Army during the Civil War and fought in several key campaigns, including at Antietam. In his later years, he penned several memoirs and military histories about the Civil War.

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13th @Interior secretary Carl Schurz joined the Union Army in 1862 and rose through the ranks to serve as a major general during the Civil War. He fought at the 2nd Battle of Bull Run and at the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg & Chattanooga. #ArchivesVeterans (INTR 01617)

17th @Interior secretary William Vilas achieved the rank of lt. col. of the 23rd WI Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. He fought alongside Gen. Grant’s Army of the TN at the siege and fall of Vicksburg. A statue of Vilas stands @VicksburgNPS. #ArchivesVeterans (INTR 01621)

18th @Interior secretary John Noble enlisted in the 3rd Iowa Cavalry during the Civil War and became judge advocate general of the Army of the Southwest. He ultimately received an honorary promotion to brigadier general. #ArchivesVeterans (INTR 01622)

28th @Interior secretary Albert Fall served as captain of an infantry company in the Spanish-American War.

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29th @Interior secretary Hubert Work, MD (the 1st physician in a US Cabinet) entered the Army during WWI. He was a lieutenant colonel in the US Army Medical Corps and subsequently served in the Army Medical Reserve. He is buried @ArlingtonNatl.

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33rd @Interior secretary Julius Krug left the War Production Board in April 1944, enlisted in the US Navy and served as a lieutenant colonel but was called back later that year to be chairman of the War Production Board.

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34th @Interior secretary Oscar Chapman enlisted in the Navy Medical Corps in 1918 and served overseas during World War I.

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35th @Interior secretary Douglas McKay holds the distinction of being a veteran of both WWI *and* WWII. As a 1st lieutenant in the Army, he served in WWI’s European theater, earning a Purple Heart. He was an Army major in WWII.

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37th @Interior secretary Stewart Udall served four years in the Army Air Corps (15th Army Air Force) during WWII as a gunner on a B-24, ultimately flying 50 combat missions in Europe.

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39th @Interior secretary Rogers Morton joined the Navy but had to resign his commission due to a back ailment. In 1941, he enlisted as a private in the Army, serving with the Armored Field Artillery in the European Theater during WWII.

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40th @Interior secretary Stanley Hathaway served in the US Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1945. Trained as a radio operator and gunner, he was with the Eighth Air Force’s 401st Bomb Group. He was on 35 combat missions in B-17s in Europe.

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41st @Interior secretary Thomas Kleppe served 4 years as an Army warrant officer during WWII. He also played shortstop on an Army baseball team and was good enough to receive (and turn down) a pro baseball contract from the St. Louis @Cardinals.

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42nd @Interior secretary Cecil Andrus was a Navy veteran. He enlisted in 1951 and flew as part of a Navy patrol bomber squadron in Korea during the Korean War.

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44th @Interior secretary William Clark Jr. was drafted into the Army in 1953. He served two years with the Army Counter Intelligence Corps in Europe.

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52nd @Interior secretary Ryan Zinke served from 1986 to 2008 as a US Navy SEAL. He was the first former Navy SEAL to be elected to the US House of Representatives and the first to be appointed as a US cabinet secretary.
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📷: DOI photo by Tami Heilemann

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