Leonard Wood

Leonard Wood (1860 to 1927) was a United States Army major general who began his career as an army surgeon and went on to hold some of the highest military and colonial offices of his era. He received the Medal of Honor for his part in the 1886 campaign against Geronimo, and in the Spanish-American War he organized and commanded the Rough Riders with Theodore Roosevelt as his second in command, later leading a cavalry brigade at San Juan Heights. He served as military governor of Santiago and governor of Cuba, as governor of the Moro Province in the Philippines during the Philippine-American War, as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1910 to 1914, and as Governor-General of the Philippines from 1921 until his death. He was passed over for command of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I and was a leading candidate for the 1920 Republican presidential nomination.