domingo, 10 de agosto de 2014

JOSEPH C. MEHAFFEY

Joseph Mehaffey, son of William Robert and May Mehaffe Brooks, was born in Lima, Ohio on November 20, 1889 After completing his secondary education, he entered the Military Academy at West Point United States. He graduated and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers in June 1911.

The first assignments were Mehaffey it in the office of the district engineer in Rock Island, Illinois, Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana between June and November 1911 In the fall of 1911 was first sent to the Zone Panama Canal where he remained until June 1912, when he entered the office of the district engineer in Pittsburgh.

Mehaffey took their second courses in the United States Army School of Engineers in Barracks Washington in the District of Columbia where he entered in 1912 and graduated in October 1913 reaching the rank of lieutenant. In May 1914 he was appointed assistant engineer in the Western Department; in 1915 he worked on the Alaska Board of Road Commissioners.

From October 1917 to May 1919 Mehaffey was offered his services again in the Office of the Chief of Engineers in Washington. After World War I he worked in St. Nazaire, France, and in London as an assistant engineer officer purchases. In July he was promoted to the rank of Major.

Mehaffey In 1922 he was appointed professor of practical military engineering at West Point. He returned to the Panama Canal Zone in December 1929 as an assistant engineer. He left for the United States to take a few courses at the Command and General Staff at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; He graduated in June 1935; then a third time, was named in the Office of the Chief of Engineers in Washington, DC

In September 1941 Mehaffey was again assigned to the Canal Zone of Panama as Maintenance Engineer, working in this position until 1941 was made a Brigadier General in June 1942 and appointed Governor of the Canal Zone on 15 May 1944. in 1945, Congress provided a million and a half dollars and he was commissioned to report Mehaffey what changes were needed to modernize the operation of the Canal.

In December 1947, Mehaffey recommended the construction of a sea level canal, using approximately the same route this. This matter was still under discussion in May 1948 when Mehaffey completed his four years as governor.

Mehaffey retired on November 30, 1949 and died on 18 February 1963.

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