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Lindley Garrison
Garrison in 1913

46th United States Secretary of War
In office March 5, 1913 – February 10, 1916
President	Woodrow Wilson
Preceded by	Henry L. Stimson
Succeeded by	Newton D. Baker

Personal details
Born	Lindley Miller Garrison (1864-11-28)November 28, 1864 Camden, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	October 19, 1932(1932-10-19) (aged 67) Sea Bright, New Jersey, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Margaret Hildeburn
Education	Harvard University (BA) University of Pennsylvania (LLB)

Lindley Miller Garrison (November 28, 1864 – October 19, 1932) was an American lawyer from New Jersey who served as Secretary of War under U.S. President Woodrow Wilson between 1913 and 1916.

Biography

Early years

Lindley Miller Garrison was born in Camden, New Jersey, the son of the Reverend Joseph Fithian Garrison (1823–1892) and Elizabeth Vanarsdale (Grant) Garrison (1829–1903). His brother was Charles G. Garrison, an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court He attended public schools and the Protestant Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy for one year before attending Harvard University as a special student from 1884 to 1885. He studied law in the office of Redding, Jones & Carson of Philadelphia, received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar in 1886. He practiced law in Camden from 1888 to 1898 and became a partner in the firm of Garrison, McManus & Enright in Jersey City in 1899. He married Margaret Hildeburn in Jersey City on 30 June 1899. Garrison served as vice-chancellor of New Jersey from 1904 to 1913, where he came to Governor Woodrow Wilson's notice.

Secretary of War

From March 5, 1913 to February 10, 1916, Garrison served as Secretary of War in the Wilson administration. Garrison and Wilson never fit well together. Garrison was much more willing to intervene militarily overseas than was the President. This was especially evident in regard to Mexico. Garrison urged American intervention into the Mexican revolution to restore order. During the Preparedness campaign of 1916, when Wilson was trying to convince Congress to raise military spending, Garrison supported a plan for expanding the US military with what he called the Continental Army Plan. Garrison's proposal would establish a standing army of 140,000 and a national, volunteer reserve force of 400,000 men. Wilson initially gave the plan tepid support, but Garrison ran into opposition from both those who felt his plan went too far in creating a large standing army, as well as from those who felt it did not go far enough. Wilson was convinced by allies in Congress to back an alternative plan which emphasized not Garrison's national volunteer force, but a continued role for the states' National Guard. Garrison resigned in February 1916 over these differences.

Later years

After leaving Wilson's administration Garrison returned to the practice of law in the firm of Hornblower, Miller & Garrison (now Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP). He was appointed receiver of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company in December 1918 and served until June 1923. His wife Margaret died in Manhattan in 1926. He died on October 19, 1932, at his home in Sea Bright, New Jersey.

References

Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Lawyer Politicians in New Jersey, G". Retrieved 14 July 2016.
"New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZPM-S9Q : accessed 16 May 2016), Lindley M. Garrison and Margaret R. Hildeburn, 30 Jun 1899; citing 589,821.
"The Cornell Daily Sun 11 February 1916 — The Cornell Daily Sun". cdsun.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
"Milestones: Jan. 3, 1927". Time. 1927-01-03. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
Staff. "LINDLEY M. GARRISON DIES IN 68TH YEAR; Secretary of War in Wilson Cabinet Succumbs in Home in Seabright, N. J. WAS A TALENTED LAWYER Differed With President on Method of Strengthening Military Defense and Resigned.", The New York Times, October 20, 1932. Accessed May 9, 2017. "SEA BRIGHT, N. J., Oct. 19. - Lindley M. Garrison, one of the leaders of the American bar who was Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson from March 5, 1913, to Feb. 10, 1916, when he resigned, died yesterday at his home here, 38 Ocean Avenue."

Sources

Bell, William Gardner (1992). "Lindley Miller Garrison". Secretaries of War and Secretaries of the Army. United States Army Center of Military History.

External links

Media related to Lindley M. Garrison at Wikimedia Commons

Political offices
Preceded byHenry L. Stimson	U.S. Secretary of War Served under: Woodrow Wilson March 5, 1913 – February 10, 1916	Succeeded byNewton D. Baker

United States secretaries of war and the Army

Department
of War
(1789–1947)

Secretaries of war	B. Lincoln Knox Pickering McHenry Dexter Dearborn Eustis Armstrong Monroe W. Crawford Calhoun Barbour P. Porter Eaton Cass Poinsett Bell Spencer J. Porter Wilkins Marcy G. Crawford Conrad J. Davis Floyd Holt S. Cameron Stanton Schofield Rawlins Belknap A. Taft J. Cameron McCrary Ramsey R. Lincoln Endicott Proctor Elkins Lamont Alger Root W. Taft Wright Dickinson Stimson Garrison Baker Weeks D. Davis Good Hurley Dern Woodring Stimson Patterson Royall
Assistant secretaries of war	Scott Watson Tucker Wolcott Dana Eckert Grant Doe Meiklejohn Sanger Oliver Breckinridge Ingraham Crowell Williams Wainwright D. Davis MacNider Robbins Hurley Payne Woodring L. Johnson Patterson McCloy Petersen
Under secretaries of war	Patterson Royall Draper

Department
of the Army
(1947–present)

Secretaries of the Army	Royall Gray Pace Stevens Brucker Stahr Vance Ailes Resor Froehlke Callaway Hoffmann C. Alexander Marsh Stone West Caldera White Harvey Geren McHugh Fanning Esper McCarthy Wormuth
Under secretaries of the Army	Draper Gray Voorhees A. Alexander Bendetsen E. Johnson Slezak Finucane Milton Ailes Ignatius Resor McGiffert Beal BeLieu Staudt Augustine LaBerge Ambrose Stone Shannon Reeder Walker Rostker Dahlberg Brownlee Geren Ford Westphal Carson Murphy McCarthy McPherson Camarillo

v t e Cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)
Vice President	Thomas R. Marshall (1913–1921)
Secretary of State	William Jennings Bryan (1913–1915) Robert Lansing (1915–1920) Bainbridge Colby (1920–1921)
Secretary of the Treasury	William Gibbs McAdoo (1913–1918) Carter Glass (1918–1920) David F. Houston (1920–1921)
Secretary of War	Lindley Miller Garrison (1913–1916) Newton D. Baker (1916–1921)
Attorney General	James Clark McReynolds (1913–1914) Thomas Watt Gregory (1914–1919) A. Mitchell Palmer (1919–1921)
Postmaster General	Albert S. Burleson (1913–1921)
Secretary of the Navy	Josephus Daniels (1913–1921)
Secretary of the Interior	Franklin Knight Lane (1913–1920) John Barton Payne (1920–1921)
Secretary of Agriculture	David F. Houston (1913–1920) Edwin T. Meredith (1920–1921)
Secretary of Commerce	William C. Redfield (1913–1919) Joshua W. Alexander (1919–1921)
Secretary of Labor	William Bauchop Wilson (1913–1921)

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