Stanley Dunbar Embick

Stanley Dunbar Embick [stænliː dənbɑːr ɛmbɪk] (January 22, 1877 – October 23, 1957) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army.

[2] He attended Dickinson College before enrolling at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, from which he graduated in 1899.

After his service in Cuba, he served in a variety of assignments, including the staff of the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia and Assistant to the Chief of Artillery in Washington, D.C. During World War I Embick served on the staff of the Supreme War Council, and then the commission to Negotiate Peace, for which he received the Army Distinguished Service Medal.

Embick became Director of the War Plans Division as a major general in 1936, and later that year was named the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff.

Embick was recalled for World War II, serving as Chief of the Joint Strategic Survey Committee, Chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board, and a delegate to the Dumbarton Oaks Conference that created the United Nations.

At West Point in 1899
The Allied War Council at the home of General Tasker H. Bliss at Versailles , France, May 1918. Colonel Stanley D. Embick is stood in the second row, first on the left.
Army and corps area commanders meet with Secretary of War and Chief of Staff in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1, 1939 to plan intensive training of the army for the next six months. Lieutenant General Stanley D. Embick, commanding both the Fourth Corps Area and the Third Army, is sat fifth on the left.