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Marion Military Institute is an Alabama Historical Marker. [12] It is the home of two National Register of Historic Places - The MMI Chapel and Lovelace Hall, and the President's House. [13] [14] The Alabama Military Hall of Honor (the Old Marion City Hall), created by executive order of Gov. George Wallace in 1975, is also on campus. [2]
Major General Marion Eugene Carl (November 1, 1915 – June 28, 1998) was an American military officer, World War II fighter ace, record-setting test pilot, and naval aviator. He was the United States Marine Corps ' first ace in World War II.
Francis Marion was born in Berkeley County, Province of South Carolina around 1732. His father Gabriel Marion was a Huguenot who emigrated to the Thirteen Colonies from France at some point prior to 1700 due to the Edict of Fontainebleau and became a slaveowning planter. [3]
Houser's grave at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, Maryland.. Houser was born in Fort Valley, Georgia to Emmett and Mary Mathews Houser. [2] Houser attended the Marion Military Institute, graduating in 1916, [3] before receiving an appointment to the United States Naval Academy on May 26, 1917.
Robert L. Marion is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the principal military deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology and the Director of the United States Army Acquisition Corps from 2020 to 2024.
Marion commented after the 1941 season that Crespi's play was the best he ever saw by a second baseman. Crespi once took on Joe Medwick on the field (during a game) when he was trying to intimidate Marion. They remained friends until Crespi's death in 1990. [citation needed] Marion's playing career was interrupted in 1951 by knee and back ...
Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is an American domestic terrorist who was convicted for conspiring with Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing plot. [2] Prior to his incarceration, he held a variety of short-term jobs, working as a farmer, grain elevator manager, real estate salesman, and ranch hand. [5]
John Eric Olson (November 27, 1917 – October 2, 2012) was a U.S. Army Colonel, West Point graduate (class of 1939), and one of the last surviving officers of the Bataan Death March of World War II. He was also a military historian and author of three books, as well as numerous magazine articles dealing primarily with his experiences as a ...