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	Presidential Physician: Leonard Wood (1860-1927)

Presidents

1	Grover Cleveland	- During presidency: inside physician
2	William McKinley	- During presidency: primary physician

Education

Degree: MD
School: Harvard University Medical School, 1884

Military

1. MG, USA
 

2. Congressional Medal of Honor, 1898
 

3. Commissioned as medical officer, but was given line command in 1898: commanding officer of the 1st Volunteer Cavalry, "The Rough Riders." Theodore Roosevelt was his second-in-command.
 

4. Chief of Staff, US Army, 1910
 

5. Fort Leonard Wood, an active-duty Army post in Missouri, is named after him.

Notes

• Candidate for President, 1920, but (barely) failed to get Republican nomination.
 

• Died of brain tumor. Harvey Cushing performed the operation.

References

• Roos CA. Physicians to the Presidents, and their patients: a bibliography. Bull Med Library Assoc. 1961; 49(3): 291-360.