General Joseph Wheeler was a former Confederate Cavalry Lieutenant General.
President Mckinley and General Nelson Miles.
General Grant.
Ulysses Grant. Also Garfield, Arthur and McKinley.
Theodore Roosevelt and George Dewey
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The first one was Grant. But there were also Garfield, Benjamin Harrison and McKinley.
Ulysses Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and James A. Garfield. William McKinley was also an Ohio-born Republican Union Army veteran who became president, who served in the same regiment with Hayes before Hayes was promoted. McKinley was a much younger man and never became a general though. By the time McKinley became president all the ex-generals were too old or already dead. McKinley was the last Union Army vet to be president.
Grant was not alive when the Spanish-American War was fought.
General John Ruller Brooke served as militarygovernor of Cuba for most of the year 1899.
No. He was eventually made General-in-Chief of the Confederate armies, although much too late to make any difference. Leader of the Southern states was the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis.
Both George W. Bush (43rd President) and his father George H.W. Bush (41st President) were pilots in the military. However, as a first lieutenant in the Texas Air National Guard, G.W. Bush was a reservist, and did not see combat in the Vietnam War.George H. W. Bush (born June 12, 1924) was a Lieutenant, Junior Grade, in the United States Navy in World War II. During an attack in the Pacific campaign, his small carrier torpedo bomber was shot down by the Japanese, and his two fellow crewmen were killed. He was rescued and continued to fly missions, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
The first American governor-general of the Philippines was William Howard Taft. He was appointed by then President, William McKinley in 1900. There has been no American Governor of the Philippines since 1946.