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Leonard Wood

1860–1927 · 20th century

Leonard Wood was a United States army doctor and general who commanded the Rough Riders with Theodore Roosevelt in 1898. He was military governor of Cuba from 1899 to 1902, governor of the Moro Province in the southern Philippines from 1903 to 1906, and army chief of staff from 1910 to 1914. As governor-general of the Philippines from 1921 to 1927 he clashed with Filipino leaders over self-government.

Leonard Wood
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