George Catlett Marshall State of Residency: Pennsylvania Appointment: Jan 8, 1947 Entry on Duty: Jan 21, 1947 Termination of Appointment: Jan 20, 1949 Presidency: Truman

As Secretary of State

• First military leader to head the Department of State

• Was United States member of the Council of Foreign Ministers at Moscow and at London in 1947

• Put forward the "Marshall Plan" for European recovery in 1947

Foreign Travels of Secretary of State George Marshall

Foreign Relations of the United States:
1947 (vol.1-8), 1948 (vol. 1-9), 1949 (vol. 1-9)

FRUS online 1947-1949

Profile
Born: December 31, 1880
Died: October 16, 1959
Married: Elizabeth Carter Coles (died); Katherine Boyce Tupper Brown
Education: Virginia Military Institute
Occupation: Military

Government Positions

• Served in the United States Army 1901-1945

• Attaining the rank of general of the Army

• Saw overseas service in World War I

• Chief of Staff of the Army 1939-1945

• Participated in the variou World War II conferences of President Roosevelt with Prime Minister Churchill and with Marshall Stalin and Generalissimo Chaing Kai-Shek

• Accompanied President Trumann to the Potsdam Conference in 1945

• Special Representative of the President to China with the rank of Ambassador 1945-1947

• Secretary of Defense 1950-1951

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