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John Archer Lejeune (/ l ə ˈ ʒ ɜːr n / lə-ZHURN; [2] January 10, 1867 – November 20, 1942) was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general and the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Lejeune served for nearly 40 years in the military, and commanded the U.S. Army's 2nd Division during World War I .
John Lejeune, as the Commandant of the Marine Corps, wrote in 1926 that the two expeditionary forces could be described as training centers during peacetime. [4] The former Advanced Base Force became the East Coast Expeditionary Force in 1921, re-designated on Lejeune's orders, and in 1925 the West Coast Expeditionary Force was established at ...
John A. Lejeune: Thomas Lemar: World Cup winning footballer Curtis LeMay: Lyman Lemnitzer: Janez Lenarčič: Slovene diplomat Charles-Amable Lenoir: 1860 – 1926 French painter Knight Aimé Lepercq: Eugène Lepoittevin: Henry Lerolle [10] 1848 – 1929 French painter Knight (1902) Jean-François Le Sueur: French Composer Victor Levasseur ...
Founded in part by then-Col. John A. Lejeune, since February 1920, the Marine Corps Institute facilitated the training and education of individual Marines.MCI ensured access to products and provided opportunities to improve performance, to enhance Professional Military Education, and to provide promotion opportunity, together with sponsors of Marine Corps education and training programs.
*John A. Lejeune 2 1924 Washington, DC *John A. Lejeune 3 1925 Philadelphia, PA *John A. Lejeune 4 1926 Cleveland, OH *John A. Lejeune 5 1927 Erie, PA *John A. Lejeune 6 1928 Dallas, TX *John A. Lejeune 7 1929 Cincinnati, OH *John A. Lejeune *Wendell C. Neville 8 1930 St Louis, MO *W. Karl Lations 9 1931 Buffalo, NY *W. Karl Lations 1932
John A. Lejeune – 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Commanding General of the U.S. Army's 2nd Infantry Division, and author of the birthday message read aloud at every Marine Corps Birthday Ball ceremony
General Lejeune may refer to: Francis St David Benwell Lejeune (1899–1984), British Army major general John A. Lejeune (1867–1942), U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general
Camp Lejeune US Marine Corps base (Named for John A. Lejeune, 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, of Acadian descent) Charlotte (Named for Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz) Fayetteville (Named for the Marquis de Lafayette) Faison (Named for Henry Faison, local physician and cotton farmer of French Huguenot descent) Fremont