Major General Louis Emerson Hibbs (October 3, 1893 − April 28, 1970) was a United States Army officer who served in both World War I and World War II, where he commanded the 63rd Infantry Division.

[1] He was promoted to first lieutenant on July 1, 1916, less than a month after graduating, and was by then serving with the 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, then stationed at Eagle Pass, Texas.

[2] Hibbs saw service in World War I, which the United States had entered in April 1917.

He was eventually transferred to the 5th Field Artillery Regiment, which was then serving in Western Front, the main theater of war, as part of the 1st Division of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF).

[3] He retained this post until February 1942, two months after the United States had entered World War II, when he was made the commander of the Artillery of the 36th Infantry Division, an Army National Guard formation recruiting from Texas and commanded by Major General Fred L. Walker, who had been one of Hibbs's instructors at the Army War College.