Maxwell Taylor Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 3 pages of information about the life of Maxwell Taylor.

Maxwell Taylor Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 3 pages of information about the life of Maxwell Taylor.
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General Maxwell Taylor (1901-1987) served the United States for half a century as a soldier-statesman-scholar in peacetime and in three wars.

Maxwell Davenport Taylor was born August 26, 1901, in Keytesville, Missouri. He attended school in Kansas City until accepting an appointment to West Point. Graduating fourth in his class in 1922, Taylor joined the Corps of Engineers (later transferring to the Field Artillery). During the 1920s and 1930s Taylor served in several posts in the United States and in France, Japan, and China.

An accomplished linguist, he returned to West Point as a language instructor, 1927 to 1932. But he was foremost a student of military science, graduating from the Army's Command and Staff School in 1935 and the Army War College in 1940. In between schools he held various command and staff assignments.

When the United States entered World War II in 1941, Taylor wore the silver leaf of a lieutenant colonel. From then...

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