Background
Schuyler was born in Mount Arlington, New Jersey on December 22, 1900, and was a descendant of the prominent Schuyler, Van Rensselaer and Van Cortlandt families of upstate New New York
Schuyler was born in Mount Arlington, New Jersey on December 22, 1900, and was a descendant of the prominent Schuyler, Van Rensselaer and Van Cortlandt families of upstate New New York
He attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1922 and was commissioned in the Coast Artillery Corps. He graduated from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in 1937.
His first assignment was at Fort Monroe, Virginia, where he was assigned to the 61st Antiaircraft Battalion, at the time the only anti-aircraft unit in the army. Later he served with the 60th Coast Artillery (antiaircraft) in the Philippines and the 4th Coast Artillery (Antiaircraft) at Fort Amador in the Panama Canal Zone. In 1942 Schuyler was assigned to the Antiaircraft Command in Richmond, Virginia in 1942.
He was promoted to brigadier general and assigned as chief of staff of the Antiaircraft Command.
The Antiaircraft Command had the task of organizing and training all antiaircraft units of a rapidly expanding Army and controlled eight large training centers from Massachusetts to California. In the fall of 1944, General Schuyler was assigned to Bucharest, Romania, as the United States. Military Representative to the Allied Control Commission.
The agency was created by the three interested allied governments (British, United States and Russian) to administer the terms of the Romanian armistice. General Schuyler returned to Washington in 1947 and was assigned as the Chief of the Plans and Policy Group, Army General Staff.
lieutenant was in this position that he became heavily involved in the fast developing concept of the North Atlantic alliance.
He assisted in the preparation of policy papers and participated in the discussions which, in 1949, culminated in the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). Schuyler was promoted to major general in 1952 and given command of the 28th Infantry Division in 1953. Schuyler was promoted to general in 1956 and remained as the chief of staff for the new Supreme Commander, General Lauris Norstad, until his retirement from the Army in November 1959.
After retiring from the army in 1959, Schuyler served as Commissioner of the New York State Office of General Services from 1960 to 1971.
Schuyler died on December 4, 1993 in San Antonio, Texas. He was buried at West Point Cemetery, Section 8, Row C, Site 172.