Background
Langley was born in Kansas and raised in Oklahoma.
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Jesse Raymond Langley
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Education
Langley received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan in 1908.
Career
He played football for the University of Michigan from 1904 to 1907. He was the head football coach at Texas Christian University from 1908 to 1909. While attending Michigan, he played football for Fielding H. Yost"s Michigan Wolverines football team from 1904 to 1907.
Langley was the head football coach at Texas Christian University from 1908 to 1909.
He compiled a record of 11–5–1 in his two seasons as the head coach. After retiring from football, Langley became a patent attorney.
In 1912, he was employed as an assistant examiner at the United States. Patent Office in Washington, District of Columbia Langley worked in the patent department at Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company for 14 years. He later accepted a similar position with Koppers Company, wherehe worked for six years.
His career as a patent attorney was interrupted by military service during World War I. He served as a major in the infantry during the war and later held the rank of colonel in the Reserve Corps.
During combat at the Golfe de Malancourt in France, he suffered machine gun wounds in both of his legs. According to one account, he had "both of his legs shattered by bullets from a German machine gun."
In December 1933, Langley died at his home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at age 56.
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