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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]
President of Marion Military Institute Robert Franklin Foley (born May 30, 1941) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served in the Vietnam War . He received the Medal of Honor for leading his unit in an assault on a strong enemy position on November 5, 1966, during Operation Attleboro .
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]
Marion Military Institute was founded in 1887. [5] Howard College, initially the location of the current Marion Military Institute, was founded in Marion in 1841, and moved to Birmingham in 1887, later becoming Samford University. [5] A groundbreaking school for African Americans, the Lincoln Normal School, was founded here in 1867. [5]
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Robert Edward Hogaboom was born on November 13, 1902, in Meridian, Mississippi, as the son of late Army Colonel George E. Hogaboom and former Mary Mayerhoff.He graduated from Marion Military Institute in Marion, Alabama, in summer of 1920 and enrolled the Mississippi State College in Starkville.
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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.