Hunter Liggett

Hunter Liggett (March 21, 1857 − December 30, 1935) was a senior United States Army officer. His 42 years of military service spanned the period from the American Indian Wars to World War I. An 1879 graduate of the United States Military (West Point), Liggett served in the Infantry, and was initially posted to Montana and North Dakota during campaigns against the Sioux. During the Spanish–American War, he served first in the United States and later commanded a company of the 5th Infantry Regiment in Santiago de Cuba. He later joined the United States Volunteers, and he served as commander of a province in the Philippines during the Philippine–American War.

After his service in the Philippines, Liggett's assignments included command of a battalion in the 13th Infantry Regiment, completion of the United States Army War College course as a student, director and president of the war college, and commander of a brigade in the 2nd Division. Immediately prior to World War I, Liggett commanded a brigade in the Philippines and the Department of the Philippines. During World War I, he was one of two officers promoted to lieutenant general as commander of a field army; Liggett commanded first the First U.S. Army and later the Third U.S. Army.

After the war, Liggett commanded the army's Western Department and Ninth Corps Area, and he retired in 1921. In retirement, Liggett authored a memoir of his wartime service. He died in San Francisco on December 30, 1935 and was buried at San Francisco National Cemetery.