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James Franklin Bell (January 9, 1856 – January 8, 1919) was an officer in the United States Army who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1906 to 1910. Bell was a major general in the Regular United States Army, commanding the Department of the East, with headquarters at Governors Island, New York at
Bell later led the Department of the Philippines, the Western Department, the Eastern Department, and then Camp Upton and the 77th Division during the First World War. He resumed command of the Eastern Department, and he died in New York City, on 8 January 1919.
He executed the Gordon Gray portrait for the Secretarial Portrait Gallery at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., and his paintings of other public figures hang in the United States Capitol, the Supreme...
Oct 7, 2014 · James F. Bell, a Navy captain and pilot who was held prisoner for seven and a half years during the Vietnam War, died Sept. 30 at an Alexandria care facility. He was 83. The cause was...
James Franklin Bell graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1878. From April 14, 1906 to April 21, 1910 he served as the 4th Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. He was...
day was a forty-three-year-old Kentuckian, J. Franklin Bell. A first lieutenant in the 7th Cavalry, he held the temporary rank of colonel in the 36th U.S. Volunteer Infantry. Within four months he became a brigadier general of volunteers and within seven years chief of staff of the U.S. Army. Bell was one of the
A masterpiece of counterguerrilla warfare : BG J. Franklin Bell in the Philippines, 1901-1902 / by Robert D. Ramsey III. p. cm. -- (Long war series occasional paper ; 25) 1. Bell, James Franklin, 1856-1919 2. Counterinsurgency. 3. Counterinsurgency--United States--History--19th century. 4. Philippines--History--Philippine American War, 1899 ...
