WALTER P. LEBER

Leber P. Walter, son of Walter and Bonnie Vera Leber was born in St. Louis Missouri on September 12, 1918 He graduated from the Missouri School of Mines in 1940; and in 1951 he earned his Master's degree in Business Administration from George Washington University, and also graduated from the College of Command and General Staff in 1956 In 1950 he married Bernice Jean Palus.

Leber 1940-1941 worked as a petroleum engineer in the company Stranolind Oil Gas; in 1941 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army of the United States; rose to the rank of Major General in 1967 I was assigned to the Office of the Chief Engineer and was promoted to Secretary of the Communication Area Theater of Operations in Europe from 1942 to 1946.

He was appointed to the office of the Manhattan Engineer District in Oak Ridge from 1946 to 1947 was appointed Head of the Technical Division with us Links Military Command from 1947 to 1949; 1949 to 1950 he was assistant district engineer Officer Executivo in Seattle and Walla Walla District; from 1951 to 1955 he was assigned Staff General Logistics Department of the Army; from 1956 to 1957 he was engineer of the Eighth United States Army in Korea.

He was appointed Chief Executive of the Chief Engineer of the Army of the United States from 1958 to 1961 Leber was Lieutenant Governor of the Panama Canal Company in the period from 1961 to 1963; was assigned to the Division of Engineering Division of Engineers United States Army in the Ohio River from 1963 to 1966; engineers was director of the Office of the Chief of Engineers of the Army of the United States in Washington from 1966 to 1967.

In 1963, Leber was promoted to Brigadier General and then was appointed Governor of the Canal Zone to Panama on 21 February 1967 served in that position until March 2, 1971 He was the only governor the Panama Canal Zone who did not graduate from the Military Academy at West Point.

Under his tenure studies of Interoceanic Canal for the purpose of determining the feasibility of building a sea-level canal began in 1970; program completion Gaillard Cut widening in 1970 marked the end of a great improvement project designed to provide a safer transit through the Canal. After his term of office as Governor, Leber traveled to Washington, DC to work in the Security Anti-Missile System bales America.

Leber was awarded the medal of the two clusters of oak leaf of the Legion of Merit medal Bronze Star, the medal of a cluster of oak leaf Army Commendation, the Order of the British Empire, and The order of King Leopold II (Belgium.)