| Omar Bradley  AKA Omar Nelson Bradley
Born: 12-Feb-1893
Birthplace: Clark, MO
Died: 8-Apr-1981
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Stroke
Remains: Buried, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Military Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Army Chief of Staff Military service: US Army (General) Father: John Smith Bradley (school teacher, d. 1908, pneumonia)
Mother: Sarah Elizabeth Hubbard (wed at 16, seamstress, innkeeper)
Wife: Mary Elizabeth Quayle (b. 1892, m. 28-Dec-1916, d. 1-Dec-1965 leukemia)
Wife: Esther Dora Buhler ("Kitty", screenwriter, m. 12-Dec-1966, d. 3-Feb-2004 pneumonia)
High School: Moberly High School, Moberly, MO (1910)
Military College: US Military Academy, West Point (1915)
Professor: US Military Academy, West Point (1920-24 and 1929-34)
Military College: Army Command and General Staff College (1929)
Military College: US Army War College (1934)
Bulova Watch Company Chairman (1958-73)
Member of the Board of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (1949-53)
US Army Chief of Staff (1948-49)
US Defense Department Veterans Affairs Administrator (1945-48)
US Defense Department Commanding General, 1st Army (1944-45)
Alfalfa Club 1953, president
Rotary International Moberly, MO
Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity
Army Distinguished Service Medal
Bronze Star
Legion of Merit oak leaf cluster
Silver Star
French Legion of Honor
Croix de Guerre
Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses 1948
Kentucky Colonel 1969
Risk Factors: Depression
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Never Wave at a WAC (28-Jan-1952)
Tunisian Victory (16-Mar-1944) · Himself
Author of books:
A Soldier's Story (1951)
A General's Life: An Autobiography (1983, memoir)
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