Major General Paul Woolever Newgarden (February 24, 1892 – July 14, 1944)[2] was a senior United States Army officer.

[3] As a boy he lived on a number of Army posts until his father's retirement due to physical disability in the line of duty in 1907.

Seeking an Army career, he obtained an appointment at large to the United States Military Academy and entered on March 1, 1909, from Washington, D. C. at the age of 17.

Throughout his four years as a cadet he worked industriously in the gym and made several athletic squads, including baseball, broadsword, indoor meet, and hockey.

He served in 1924 with the 27th Infantry Regiment in Hawaii as a Major, and completed his tour in the Islands with a year as Inspector of the Hawaiian Division.

Following courses at the Army War College in 1931–1932, he had duty in the Training Section, Office of the Chief of Infantry.

By now his ability for higher echelon jobs was well established and he became G-l of the First Army in its initial organization from 1934 to 1936, and later G-3 of the Sixth Corps Area in Chicago.

Shortly thereafter, on June 22, 1942, he was promoted to temporary Major General, and assigned to organize and train the 10th Armored Division at Fort Benning.

While Major General William H. H. Morris took the "Tigers" into battle, Newgarden was the first to command and train them, and the 10th Armored Division played key roles in several engagements during World War II.

In July 1944, while traveling in a military aircraft from an Armored Force conference at Fort Knox, Kentucky, to his Division Headquarters at Fort Benning, Georgia, Newgarden learned that one of his junior officers traveling with him could spend a few hours with his family by rerouting the plane through Chattanooga, Tennessee.