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Otis B. Duncan
Otis B. Duncan (November 18, 1873 - May 17, 1937) was an officer in the United States Army. He was the highest-ranking African American in the U.S. Army during World War I, serving as a lieutenant-colonel in the 370th Infantry Regiment.
==Biography==
Illinois was different from other states during the Jim Crow era in that it organized, and paid for the training of, an all-African-American regiment within the Illinois National Guard. This unit, organized in the 1870s, was the 8th Illinois Infantry.
Otis B. Duncan was born on November 18, 1873. He was a member of a long-established African-American family of Springfield, Illinois; his father was a grocer and his maternal grandfather, barber William Florville, had been a friend of Abraham Lincoln.
In 1895, Duncan became a worker for the state of Illinois, serving in the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (the predecessor of the current Illinois State Board of Education). In addition, Duncan entered the Illinois National Guard in 1902; assigned to the 8th Illinois, he was commissioned as an officer. When the 8th Illinois was called into national service during the Pancho Villa Expedition into Mexico in 1916, Duncan served as a major on the regimental staff.〔
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