Frank Thomas HINES

Background

HINES, Frank Thomas was born on April 11, 1879 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Son of Frank L. and Martha (Hollingsworth) Hines.

Education

Doctor of Laws, Agricultural College of Utah, 1920. Doctor of Laws, Lincocln Memorial University, 1927. University of Alabama, 1932.

Honor graduate Coast Artillery School, 1904.

Graduate Central America School, 1911. Doctor of Laws, Bethany College, West Virginia, 1944.

Career

Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection. American occupation of Vera Cruz, 1912-1914. On declaration of War with Germany in Athens, instructed to take charge embarkation American citizens en route home, 1914.

Promoted. Major, Lieutenant Colonel, National. Army, 1917; detailed as Assistant, General Staff, War Department. Chief, Embarkation Service, controlling entire embarkation of troops sent overseas, 1918.

Appointed Brigadier General, National. Army, 1918; sent to negotiate with British and French Govts., relative cost of transportation and supplies, 1919. Appointed Brigadier General, Regular Army, 1920.

Brigadier General, O.R.C., Initial General Staff, Eligible List., September 1920. Appointed Director, United States Veterans. Bureau. by President Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, since 1923.

Awarded, Distinguished Service Medal. Order of Bath (British). Ordre de Leopold (Belgian).

Officer of Legion of Honor (French). Order of Sacred Treasure (Japanese). War Cross (Czechoslovakian).

Achievements

• Frank Thomas Hines has been listed as a noteworthy army officer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member: American Society Mechanical Engineers. American Legion; Veterans. Foreign Wars; United Spanish War Veterans.

Military Order of World War, Carabao. Clubs: Engineers (New York), Congressional.

• Member of American Society Mechanical Engineers. American Legion; Veterans Foreign Wars. United Span. War Veterans. Military Order of World War, Carabao. Clubs: Engineers (New York), Congressional.

Connections

Married Nellie M. Vier, October 4, 1900. Children: Mistress Viera H. Kennedy (deceased), Frank T. Junior.

Father:

Frank L.

Mother:

Martha J. Hines

Spouse:

Nellie M. Vier

child:

Frank T. Junior Hines

child:

Mistress Viera H. Kennedy Hines (deceased)