Presidential Physician: Leonard Wood
(1860-1927)

• Grover Cleveland:
  · During presidency: inside physician
• William McKinley:
  · During presidency: primary physician

• Degree: MD
• Medical school: Harvard University Medical School, 1884

• MG, USA
• Congressional Medal of Honor, 1898
• 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.
• Chief of Staff, US Army, 1910
• Fort Leonard Wood, an active-duty Army post in Missouri, is named after him.

• Candidate for President, 1920, but (barely) failed to get Republican nomination.
• Died of brain tumor. Harvey Cushing performed the operation.

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