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General of the Army George Catlett Marshall
File:General George C. Marshall, official military photo, 1946.JPEG

50th United States Secretary of State
In office January 21, 1947 – January 20, 1949
President	Harry S. Truman
Preceded by	James F. Byrnes
Succeeded by	Dean Acheson
3rd United States Secretary of Defense
In office September 21, 1950 – September 12, 1951
President	Harry S. Truman
Preceded by	Louis A. Johnson
Succeeded by	Robert A. Lovett
15th United States Army Chief of Staff
In office September 1, 1939 – November 18, 1945
Preceded by	Malin Craig
Succeeded by	Dwight D. Eisenhower

Personal details
Born	(1880-12-31)December 31, 1880 Uniontown, Pennsylvania
Died	October 16, 1959(1959-10-16) (aged 78) Washington, D.C.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Katherine Boyce Tupper Elizabeth Carter Cole
Alma mater	Virginia Military Institute
Profession	Soldier Statesman
Awards	Distinguished Service Medal (2) Silver Star Nobel Peace Prize
Signature	File:George C Marshall Signature.svg
Military service
Allegiance	United States United States of America
Branch/service	United States Army
Years of service	1902–1945 also through to 1959 (General of the Army regulations)
Rank	File:US-O11 insignia.svg General of the Army
Commands	File:Flag US Army Chief of Staff.svgChief of Staff of the United States Army
Battles/wars	Philippine–American War World War I Western Front Meuse-Argonne Offensive World War II

George Catlett Marshall (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American military leader. He was Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Marshall served as the United States Army Chief of Staff during World War II. As Secretary of State, his name was given to the Marshall Plan. For this plan, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.^[1]

Marshall joined the US Army in 1902. He served in France during World War I.

References[change]

↑ W. Del Testa, David; Florence Lemoine and John Strickland (2001). Government Leaders, Military Rulers, and Political Activists. pp. 120.

v t e Cabinet of President Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)
Vice President	None (1945–1949) Alben W. Barkley (1949–1953)	Harry S. Truman, thirty-third President of the United States
Secretary of State	Edward Stettinius, Jr. (1945) James F. Byrnes (1945–1947) George Marshall (1947–1949) Dean Acheson (1949–1953)
Secretary of the Treasury	Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1945) Fred M. Vinson (1945–1946) John Wesley Snyder (1946–1953)
Secretary of War	Henry L. Stimson (1945) Robert P. Patterson (1945–1947) Kenneth Claiborne Royall (1947)
Secretary of Defense	James Forrestal (1947–1949) Louis A. Johnson (1949–1950) George Marshall (1950–1951) Robert A. Lovett (1951–1953)
Attorney General	Francis Biddle (1945) Tom C. Clark (1945–1949) J. Howard McGrath (1949–1952) James P. McGranery (1952–1953)
Postmaster General	Frank Comerford Walker (1945) Robert E. Hannegan (1945–1947) Jesse M. Donaldson (1947–1953)
Secretary of the Navy	James Forrestal (1945–1947)
Secretary of the Interior	Harold L. Ickes (1945–1946) Julius A. Krug (1946–1949) Oscar L. Chapman (1949–1953)
Secretary of the Agriculture	Claude R. Wickard (1945) Clinton P. Anderson (1945–1948) Charles F. Brannan (1948–1953)
Secretary of Commerce	Henry A. Wallace (1945–1946) W. Averell Harriman (1946–1948) Charles W. Sawyer (1948–1953)
Secretary of Labor	Frances Perkins (1945) Lewis B. Schwellenbach (1945–1948) Maurice J. Tobin (1948–1953)

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v t e Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
1901–1925	Dunant / Passy (1901) · Ducommun / Gobat (1902) · Cremer (1903) · IDI (1904) · Suttner (1905) · Roosevelt (1906) · Moneta / Renault (1907) · Arnoldson / Bajer (1908) · Beernaert / Estournelles de Constant (1909) · IPB (1910) · Asser / Fried (1911) · Root (1912) · La Fontaine (1913) · International Committee of the Red Cross (1917) · Wilson (1919) · Bourgeois (1920) · Branting / Lange (1921) · Nansen (1922) · Chamberlain / Dawes (1925)
1926–1950	Briand / Stresemann (1926) · Buisson / Quidde (1927) · Kellogg (1929) · Söderblom (1930) · Addams / Butler (1931) · Angell (1933) · Henderson (1934) · Ossietzky (1935) · Lamas (1936) · Cecil (1937) · Nansen Office (1938) · International Committee of the Red Cross (1944) · Hull (1945) · Balch / Mott (1946) · QPSW / AFSC (1947) · Boyd Orr (1949) · Bunche (1950)
1951–1975	Jouhaux (1951) · Schweitzer (1952) · Marshall (1953) · UNHCR (1954) · Pearson (1957) · Pire (1958) · Noel‑Baker (1959) · Lutuli (1960) · Hammarskjöld (1961) · Pauling (1962) · International Committee of the Red Cross / League of Red Cross Societies (1963) · King (1964) · UNICEF (1965) · Cassin (1968) · ILO (1969) · Borlaug (1970) · Brandt (1971) · Kissinger / Le (1973) · MacBride / Sato (1974) · Sakharov (1975)
1976–2000	B.Williams / Corrigan (1976) · AI (1977) · Sadat / Begin (1978) · Mother Teresa (1979) · Esquivel (1980) · UNHCR (1981) · Myrdal / García Robles (1982) · Wałęsa (1983) · Tutu (1984) · IPPNW (1985) · Wiesel (1986) · Arias (1987) · UN Peacekeeping Forces (1988) · Dalai Lama (1989) · Gorbachev (1990) · Suu Kyi (1991) · Menchú (1992) · Mandela / de Klerk (1993) · Arafat / Peres / Rabin (1994) · Pugwash Conferences / Rotblat (1995) · Belo / Ramos-Horta (1996) · ICBL / J.Williams (1997) · Hume / Trimble (1998) · Médecins Sans Frontières (1999) · Kim (2000)
2001–present	UN / Annan (2001) · Carter (2002) · Ebadi (2003) · Maathai (2004) · IAEA / ElBaradei (2005) · Yunus / Grameen Bank (2006) · Gore / IPCC (2007) · Ahtisaari (2008) · Obama (2009) · Xiaobo (2010) · Sirleaf / Gbowee / Karman (2011) · EU (2012) · Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (2013) · Yousafzai / Satyarthi (2014) · Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet (2015) · Juan Manuel Santos (2016) · International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (2017) · Mukwege / Murad (2018) · Ahmed (2019) · World Food Programme (2020) · Ressa / Muratov (2021) · Bialiatski / Memorial / Center for Civil Liberties (2022) · Mohammadi (2023) · Nihon Hidankyo (2024)

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