General Omar N. Bradley, 32°
(Feb 12, 1893-Apr 8, 1981)

1923 - Raised, West Point Lodge No. 877, Highland Falls, N.Y.

1929 - 32° Army Consistory at Ft. Leavenworth, KS
1965 - Knight Commander of the Court of Honour
1965 - 33° Inspector General Honorary

US Army General leading the 12th US Army Group - WW II
First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - 149 - 1953

Omar Nelson Bradley was born near Clark, Missouri, on February 12, 1893. His father was a schoolteacher who died of pneumonia when Bradley was 14; his mother worked as a seamstress and took in boarders to support herself and her son. After graduating from high school, Bradley was working for the Wabash Railroad to earn money to attend college. Though he planned to attend the University of Missouri, his Sunday school teacher urged him to apply to the United States Military Academy at West Point.

General Omar N. Bradley, was a 5-Star General of the United States Army. He was born in 1893 at Clark, Missouri. He graduated from West Point in 1915; Infantry School in 1925; Command and General Staff School in 1929; and Army War College in 1934. He received honorary LL.B. and other degrees from 20 institutions of higher learning. He advanced from 2nd lieutenant in 1915 to brigadier general in 1941; major general in 1942; lieutenant general in 1943; general in 1945 and general of the army in 1950. In WW2 he commanded the 2nd Corps in the Northern Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns; the 1st U.S. Army in the Normandy campaign and the 12th Army Group in France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and Germany. He was chief of staff, U.S. Army 1948-49 and chairman U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1949-53. In 1945-47 he was administrator of Veterans Affairs. Since 1953 he has been chairman of the board of Bulova Research and Development Labs., Inc.

He was raised to Master Mason in West Point Lodge No. 877, Highland Falls, New York in 1923. He received the 32° Master of the Royal Secret at the Army Consistory at Fort Leavenworth. In 1965 the Supreme Council elected him to receive both the Knight Commander of the Court of Honour and the 33° Inspector General Honorary in Washington D.C.