General John Lesesne DeWitt
Born in Nebraska in 1880, John DeWitt served in World War I as a lieutenant colonel and then held several positions in the War Department and Army War College.  In December 1939 he was made a Lieutenant General and put in charge of the Western Defense Command.  In that role, he supervised the evacuation of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast.  He retired from the Army in 1957, and was rewarded for his World War II service by being promoted to the rank of full general by the US Congress in 1954.
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