Francis K. Newcomer

Francis K. Newcomer ( born September 14, 1889 in Byron, Illinois; † August 16, 1967 ) was an American officer. Between 1948 and 1952 he was Governor of the Panama Canal Zone.

Career

Between 1909 and 1913, graduated from Francis newcomers the United States Military Academy at West Point. He then began a long career as an officer in the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army. He was employed at various locations in the United States and also took part in the First World War. Between 1919 and 1924 he taught the subject of mathematics at the Military Academy at West Point. Then he was transferred to Charleston in South Carolina, where he was responsible for river and harbor facilities. In 1928 he became a teacher at a school in the Corps of Engineers at Fort Belvoir ( Virginia). In 1939 he graduated as a lieutenant colonel, the Army War College in Washington DC. Afterwards he was in 1940 transferred to Vicksburg in Mississippi, where he belonged to the command to control the lower reaches of the Mississippi River.

1944 Francis newcomer was entrusted with the maintenance of the Panama Canal. This office he held for four years. In the same year he was promoted to brigadier general. He then became the new governor of the Panama Canal Zone as a successor of Joseph Cowles Mehaffey. This post he held 1948-1952. He died on 16 August 1967.