Background
Tasker Howard Bliss was born on 31 December 1853 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, to George Ripley Bliss and Mary Ann (née Raymond) Bliss.
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Tasker Howard Bliss was born on 31 December 1853 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, to George Ripley Bliss and Mary Ann (née Raymond) Bliss.
He was graduated from West Point in 1875 and the next year became an instructor there in French and artillery tactics.
He was professor of military science at the Naval War College, Newport, R. I, from 1885 to 1888. In the Spanish-American War, Bliss served in the Puerto Rican campaign, and from 1898 to 1902 was in charge of the Cuban customs service. In 1903 he was adviser to the joint Army and Navy Board, appointed to reorganize the Army under the newly instituted general staff system. In the meantime he had been promoted to the permanent rank of brigadier general in the regular army. After various commands in the Philippines between 1905 and 1909, he served briefly in 1909 as president of the Army War College and was assistant chief of staff from 1910 to 1915. Bliss was promoted to major general in 1915, and on September 22, 1917, he was named chief of staff of the Army, with the rank of general; at the age of 65 he was retired. He was a member of the House Mission to London in 1917, of the Supreme War Council in France in 1918, and of the Paris Peace Conference in 1918-1919. He later served as governor of the Soldiers' Home in Washington, D. C. , where he died November 9, 1930.
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Bliss married Eleanor Anderson on 24 May 1882.