Martin Richard Hoffmann

Martin Hoffmann


12th United States Secretary of the Army
In office August 5, 1975 – January 20, 1977
President	Gerald Ford
Preceded by	Howard H. Callaway Norman R. Augustine (Acting)
Succeeded by	Clifford Alexander Jr.

Personal details
Born	Martin Richard Hoffmann (1932-04-20)April 20, 1932 Stockbridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	July 14, 2014(2014-07-14) (aged 82) Warrenton, Virginia, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Margaret McCabe
Education	Princeton University (BA)
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Army United States Army Reserves
Years of service	1954-1958 1958-1975 (Reserves)
Rank	Major

Martin Richard Hoffmann (April 20, 1932 – July 14, 2014) was a U.S. administrator. He served as the United States Secretary of the Army between 1975 and 1977.^[1]^[2]

Early life

Martin was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts on April 20, 1932.^[3] He served in the United States Army from September 1954 to November 1955, and was a US Army Officer from November 1955 to May 1958.^{[citation needed]} He served in the Army (Officer) Reserve until 22 October 1975, retiring with the rank of Major.^{[citation needed]}

Government career

Hoffmann served as general counsel of the Department of Defense, 1974 - 75. He was appointed as Secretary of the Army from August 5, 1975, until February 13, 1977.^[3]

Death

Martin Richard Hoffmann died of cancer in 2014, aged 82.^[2]

References

^ Langer, Emily (2014-07-23). "Martin R. Hoffmann dies; Army secretary helped guide academy through scandal". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2014-07-27.
^ ^a ^b "Martin R. Hoffmann, Army Secretary in 1970s, Dies at 82". The New York Times. 27 July 2014.
^ ^a ^b Bell, William Gardner (1992). ""Martin Richard Hoffmann"". Secretaries of War and Secretaries of the Army: Portraits and Biographical Sketches. United States Army Center of Military History. Retrieved September 22, 2007.

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Government offices
Preceded by Howard H. Callaway	United States Secretary of the Army August 1975 – January 1977	Succeeded by Clifford L. Alexander Jr.

United States Secretaries of War and the Army

Department
of War
(1789–1947)

Secretaries of War	B. Lincoln Knox Pickering McHenry Dexter Dearborn Eustis Armstrong Monroe W. Crawford Calhoun Barbour P. Porter Eaton Cass Poinsett Bell Spencer J. Porter Wilkins Marcy G. Crawford Conrad J. Davis Floyd Holt S. Cameron Stanton Schofield Rawlins Belknap A. Taft J. Cameron McCrary Ramsey R. Lincoln Endicott Proctor Elkins Lamont Alger Root W. Taft Wright Dickinson Stimson Garrison Baker Weeks D. Davis Good Hurley Dern Woodring Stimson Patterson Royall
Assistant Secretaries of War	Scott Watson Tucker Wolcott Dana Eckert Grant Doe Meiklejohn Sanger Oliver Breckinridge Ingraham Crowell Williams Wainwright D. Davis MacNider Robbins Hurley Payne Woodring L. Johnson Patterson McCloy Petersen
Under Secretaries of War	Patterson Royall Draper

Department
of the Army
(1947–present)

Secretaries of the Army	Royall Gray Pace Stevens Brucker Stahr Vance Ailes Resor Froehlke Callaway Hoffmann C. Alexander Marsh Stone West Caldera White Harvey Geren McHugh Fanning Esper McCarthy Wormuth
Under Secretaries of the Army	Draper Gray Voorhees A. Alexander Bendetsen E. Johnson Slezak Finucane Milton Ailes Ignatius Resor McGiffert Beal BeLieu Staudt Augustine LaBerge Ambrose Stone Shannon Reeder Walker Rostker Dahlberg Brownlee Geren Ford Westphal Carson Murphy McCarthy McPherson Camarillo

Authority control databases
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National	United States

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