Background
Huebner, Clarence R. was born on November 24, 1888 in Bushton, Kansas, United States. Son of Samuel G. and Martha (Rishel) Huebner.
Huebner, Clarence R. was born on November 24, 1888 in Bushton, Kansas, United States. Son of Samuel G. and Martha (Rishel) Huebner.
Graduate business college, Grand Island, Nebraska, 1909. Graduate Infantry School, Advanced Course, 1923. Honor graduated from Command and General staff schedul, 1925.
Graduated from Army War College, 1929.
One daughter, Mary Juliette (Mistress Richard J. Buck). Married second, Anna Imelda Matthews, October 19, 1968 Enlisted, 18th Infantry, United States Army, 1910-1916. Second in command Lieutenant, Infantry, November 26, 1916, and advanced through grades to Lieutenant general, March 1947.
Served as captain, major and lieutenant colonel, American Expeditionary Force, World War I. Member War Department General Staffs Corps, 1940-1942. Became director training, Services of Supply, January 1942.
Commanding general 1st Infantry Division, Western Front, 1944. Later commander 5th Army Corps. Deputy commander-in-chief European Command and commanding general, United States Army, Europe, 1947.
Acting American Military Governor in Germany and acting commander United States Armed Forces in Europe, 1949-1950. Director New York Civil Defense Commission, September 1951-1972. Director National Association of State and Territorial Civil Defense, 1957-1958, president, 1958-1972.
Decorations: Distinguished Service Cross with oak leaf cluster. Distinguished Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Silver Star. Legion of Merit; Bronze Star Medal.
Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster. Victory medal with 5 battle clasps. French Legion of Honor.
French Croix de Guerre with palm. Italian War Cross; Commander Order Leopold I (Belgium). Order Sivurov 2d class (Russia).
Croix de Guerre with palm (Belgium). Order White Lion 2d class (Czechoslovakia), Grand Officer de la Conronne de Chene (Luxembourg). Companion Order of Bath (England).
Retired 1950. Home: Washington District of Columbia.
Member War Department General Staffs Corps, 1940-1942.
Married Florence Barrett, December 28, 1921.; married second, Anna Imelda Matthews, October 19, 1968 Enlisted, 18th Infantry, United States Army, 1910-1916.