Background
Bliss, Tasker Howard was born on December 31, 1853 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George Ripley (Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws) and Mary Ann (Raymond) B.
Bliss, Tasker Howard was born on December 31, 1853 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George Ripley (Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws) and Mary Ann (Raymond) B.
Educated Lewisburg Academy, 1867-1869, entered University at Lewisburg (now Bucknell U.), 1869 and finished sophomore year. Graduated from the United States Military Academy, 1875. Honor graduated from the United States Artillery School, 1884.
Doctor of Laws from Bucknell University, 1916, Western Reserve University, 1923.
Harvard University, 1927.
Second Lieutenant 1st Artillery, June 16, 1875. Commissioned First lieutenant, July 1, 1880. Promoted through grades to brigadier general volumes, April 26, 1901.
Brigadier general, United States of America, July 21, 1902.
Served 1st United States Artillery, 1875-1892. Member board officers to select camp sites for United States troops in Cuba, October-November 1898. Member Army War College Board, July 21, 1902.
Member Joint Army and Navy Board and General Staff United States of America, 1903-1905.
Member Army General Staff and president Army War College, June-December 1909. Member Joint Army and Navy Board, 1909-1910.
Member General Staff, United States Army, and assistant chief of staff, February 15, 1915. Member Joint Army and Navy Board, September 23, 1915, major general United States of America, November 20, 1915.
Member of the Allied Conference, 1917.
Member Supreme War Council in France. Member American Commission to Negotiate Peace, Paris, 1918-1919.
Married Eleanora East. Anderson, May 24, 1882.