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Maxwell D. Taylor : ウィキペディア英語版 | Maxwell D. Taylor
General Maxwell Davenport "Max" Taylor (August 26, 1901 – April 19, 1987) was a four star general of the United States Army and diplomat of the mid-20th century, who served as the fifth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after having been appointed by President John F. Kennedy. He is the father of military historian and author Thomas Happer Taylor. ==Early life and start of career== Taylor was born in Keytesville, Missouri and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. After graduating from Northeast High School he attended Kansas City Polytechnic Institute. In 1918 Taylor passed competitive examinations for Congressional appointment by William Patterson Borland to either the United States Military Academy or United States Naval Academy, and then passed the USMA entrance examination. Taylor attended West Point, graduated fourth in his class in 1922, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He served in Hawaii with the 3rd Engineers from 1923 to 1926. He transferred to the Field Artillery and from 1926 to 1927 served with the 10th Field Artillery, receiving promotion to First Lieutenant. Having demonstrated a facility for foreign languages, he studied French in Paris and was then assigned to West Point as in instructor in French and Spanish. In 1933 he graduated from the Field Artillery School, and he completed the course at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in 1935. Taylor was promoted to Captain in August 1935 and served at the American embassy in Tokyo from 1935 to 1939, including attaché duty in China in 1937. He graduated from the United States Army War College in 1940 and was promoted to Major in July 1940.
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