Background
Babcock, Conrad Stanton was born on January 12, 1904 in Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. Son of Conrad Stanton and Marion (Eells) Babcock.
Research institute executive army officer
Babcock, Conrad Stanton was born on January 12, 1904 in Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. Son of Conrad Stanton and Marion (Eells) Babcock.
Bachelor of Science, United States Military Academy, 1925. Student Institute Far Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, 1937-1938.
Second lieutenant cavalry, United States Army, 1925, advanced through grades to major general, 1956. Member United States Army Olympic Equestrian Team, 1936. Assistant military attache to Ambassador Grew, Japan, 1941-1942.
Member joint strategic plans committee, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1944.
Commanding officer 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1947-1948. Deputy chief staff for General MacArthur, 1949-1950.
Military adviser to John Foster Dulles on Japanese Peace Treaty, 1950. With United States Military Mission to United Nations, 1951-1954.
Adviser to Arthur Dean at Panmunjon, of Korea, 1953.
Assistant division commander 7th United States Infantry Division, of Korea, 1954. Counselor of mission United States Mission to United Nations, 1954-1955. Assistant division commander 2d United States Armored Division, 1955-1956, commanding general, 1956-1957.
Chief Military Assistance Advisory Group, France, 1957-1959.
Commanding general 8th United States Army Corps, 1959-1960. Director Mutual Weapons Development Team, United States Mission to North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Paris, 1960-1961.
Retired, 1961. Director operational technical division Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, 1961-1964, special assistant to president for military affairs, 1964-1969, assistant to president, 1969-1976.
Military aide to President De Gaulle on United States visit, 1961.
Member United States Army Olympic Equestrian Team, 1936. Member joint strategic plans committee, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1944. Member Institute Strategic Studies, Council Foreign Relations.
Club: Knickerbocker.
Married Jadwiga Noskowiak, November 12, 1928. Children: Barbara, Conrad Stanton III. Commissioned.