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Iowa-born George Emerson Leach is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/ftsnelling.asp.  He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Minnesota National Guard in 1905 and he graduated from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. In 1916–1917 he served at Mexico border during the Pancho Villa Expedition. Leach served in the U.S. Army during World War I and II, retiring with the rank of major general. Between the wars he was elected mayor of Minneapolis four times between 1921 and 1939. He ran unsuccessfully as the Republican candidate for governor in 1926 and 1938. Leach was an avid skier who managed the U.S. Olympic Ski Team in 1924 and is a member of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. He died in 1955.

https://www.mnmilitarymuseum.org/files/5514/9438/2947/leach.pdf
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General Pershing decorates Douglas McArthur and George Leach.

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