David Stuart Parker

David Stuart Parker ( born March 22, 1919 in Fort Huachuca, Arizona; † 9 May 1990 in Greenbrae, California ) was an American engineer, Major General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and from 1971 to 1975 Governor of the Panama Canal Zone.

Life

Parker resigned after attending school in the U.S. Army and was promoted to lieutenant after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1940. In the following years he served, after studying in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ( USACE ). After he was in 1945 a member of the administrative staff of the Commander in Chief of the Pacific War, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and General Douglas MacArthur, he was 1945-1948 head of the construction department in the chief engineer of the U.S. troops in Tokyo office.

After his return to the U.S. he was 1949 first instructor and later professor of military topography and graphics at the U.S. Military Academy before he was 1954-1956 Deputy District Engineer of the USACE District for the North West ( North Western District ) in Portland. This was followed by a use from 1957 to 1960 as chief of the Strategic Planning Group in the chief engineer of the USACE office.

Between 1963 and 1965 he was Deputy Governor (Lieutenant Governor ) of the Panama Canal Zone. After his promotion to major general in 1967, he was during the Vietnam War in 1968 commander of the engineer troops in Vietnam and held this post until 1969.

In March 1971, Parker was the successor of Walter P. liver as Governor of the Panama Canal Zone and held that office until March 1975.

In this capacity, he was directly involved in important changes and innovations such as the one the necessary care and management on the development of the foundation and representation of the first toll increase in the history of the Panama Canal. Another change was the establishment of the new navigation control center in La Boca and the public celebrations of the sixtieth anniversary channel opening in August 1974. Moreover, were established the Office of Equal Opportunity and the Federal Women's Program during his tenure. Among the other new features in human and organizational aspects included the assignment of an official of the U.S. State Department for channel management, the assignment of an officer of the U.S. Coast Guard to the Marine Office, the creation of a new security department, the establishment of an advisory body on education issues as well as further efforts to Zivilrat the Canal Zone to participate in decision-making processes.