A Soldier's Story: Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Rogers Resor



Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Rogers Resor was born on December 5, 1917, in New York.

He attended the Groton School before graduating from Yale in 1939. While he immediately began law school following graduation, Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Resor left school to join the U.S. Army and deploy to France when WWII erupted. He participated in the Battle of the Bulge and the Seige of Bastogne. He completed Yale Law School in 1946.

Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Resor devoted much of his career to financial and international law, making partners at Debevoise and Plimpton before being appointed to the post of Secretary of the Army by President Lyndon B Johnson in 1965. He was responsible for initiating the internal investigation into the My Lai massacre.

After resigning in 1971, Lieutenant Stanley Resor Colonel served as the ambassador to the Mutal and Balanced Force Talks (MBFR) in Vienna and as an undersecretary in the Department of Defence before leaving government service in 1979 and returning to the law.

He also served as the Chairman of the Arms Control Association, where he protested the expansion of NATO under President Bill Clinton.

Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Rogers Resor died on April 17. 2012, and rests in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio.


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