US Air Force General. He was born in Chilhowie, Virginia, and was selected to attend the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating on June 13, 1929, with a commission as a second lieutenant in the Army Coast Artillery Corps. He was first assigned to the 13th Coast Artillery at Fort Barrancas, Florida and then transferred to Fort Randolph in the Panama Canal Zone, where he served as a battery officer of the First Coast Artillery. He then was transferred to the 63rd Coast Artillery at Fort MacArthur, California, serving as a battery commander, assistant adjutant of the Harbor Defenses of Los Angeles, California, and later as an executive officer of the Civilian Conservation Corps in that area. In September 1935, he attended the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia, and in June 1936, he was assigned to Fort Mills, Corregidor, Philippines, as a regimental adjutant, plans training and intelligence officer, and battery commander of the 3rd Coast Artillery. In October 1938, he returned to the United States and was assigned to the Presidio of San Francisco, California, as an assistant to G-2, Ninth Corps Area. In October 1939, he was directed to Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, where he served as a battery commander and later as the commanding officer of the 66th Coast Artillery, transferring with that organization to Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico. Later on, he became the executive officer of the Caribbean Interceptor Command under Major General Follett Bradley. He returned to the United States in October 1941, and was assigned to the 71st Coast Artillery at Fort Story, Virginia as battalion commander and regimental adjutant of the 1st Battalion, performing the same duties when his division moved to the Naval Operating Base at Norfolk, Virginia. In January 1942, he was assigned to Headquarters Army Air Forces, Washington DC, and was later appointed chief of the Anti-Aircraft and Airdrome Defense Section and Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division. Shortly thereafter, he became the executive officer for the Directorate of Air Defense. He then became the deputy assistant chief of Air Staff for operations, commitments, and requirements in November 1943. In January 1946, he was appointed chief of staff of Air Transport Command, Washington DC, with a follow-on assignment in August 1946 as the commanding general of the European Division of Air Transport Command in Paris, France. He was transferred to Headquarters US Air Force in Europe at Wiesbaden, Germany, in December 1946; the following month he became the commanding general of the Headquarters Command of US Air Force in Europe at Wiesbaden. He returned to the United States in August 1947 and was appointed assistant vice chief of staff of the US Air Force on September 27, 1947. He was then assigned to Air Materiel Command (now Air Force Materiel Command), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, as vice commander on June 10, 1953. On April 1, 1961 he became the commander in chief of Air Force Logistics Command (now Air Force Materiel Command) and was promoted to the rank of general. At that time, he was the only Air Force officer to attain the rank of general without holding an aeronautical rating. He was then assigned to Headquarters Air Force, Washington DC, in July 1962, where he became vice chief of staff for the Air Force. He retired from the Air Force on 31 July 1964, with 35 years of active duty with the Army and Air Force. Among his military decorations and awards include the Army Distinguished Service Medal and the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters. After his military retirement, be briefly served as the assistant administrator for management development at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and was then selected by President Lyndon B. Johnson to be the chief of the Federal Aviation Administration in 1965. In 1968, he left to become the president of Schriever-McKee Associates (later called Schriever & McKee, Inc.) in Arlington, Virginia until 1987. He died in San Antonio, Texas.