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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collection, Photograph No. A3740-27a
Lewis Blaine Hershey
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collectio…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Visual Archives Collection, Photograph No. A3740-27a

Lewis Blaine Hershey

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Lewis Blaine Hershey (1893-1977) was the Director of the Selective Service System of the United States. He joined the Indiana National Guard in 1911, entered the U.S. Army in 1920 with the rank of captain, and held a series of appointments and duty posts. In 1936, he was made secretary of the Joint Army and Navy Selective Service Committee. When Congress established the first peacetime draft in September 1940, Hershey then served as Deputy Director of the Selective Service System from 1940 to 1941, and Director from 1941 to 1970. In February 1970 he was replaced as Director of the Selective Service, and was promoted to the rank of full general. He retired from the Army in 1973.
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Additional LBJ Library holdings related to this Individual can be accessed at https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/hersheyl Additional National Archives holdings related to this Individual can be accessed at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10568992Social Networks and Archival Context record: https://snaccooperative.org/view/85492485