Major General Lowell Ward Rooks (April 11, 1893 − January 11, 1973) was an officer in the United States Army who commanded the 90th Infantry Division in 1945 and served with the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force at the end of World War II in Europe.
In March 1945 he was appointed to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), in which role he helped to dissolve the German supreme military command and the acting German government in May 1945, leading to the arrest of Admiral Dönitz.
He was chief executive officer of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in 1946, and from 1 January 1947 to 30 September 1948 he served as its third and final Director General, overseeing the agency's closure.
[2] Rooks was awarded the American Distinguished Service Medal for the North African and Italian campaigns during World War II, the French Legion of Honour and Croix de Guerre, the Brazilian Order of Military Merit and the Belgian Order of the Crown.
[2] Rooks's older brother Albert was a United States Navy officer who was killed at sea in 1942.