Maurice E. Post [SEP] position held
Maurice E. Post
Maurice E. Post (1881–1958) was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives. He was a farmer in Rockford and represented Kent County in the legislature from 1933 until 1948; he ran for the Michigan State Senate in 1948, but did not survive the primary. Post was an alternate delegate to the 1940 Republican National Convention. He was a survivor of the Kerns Hotel fire in Lansing of December 11, 1934.
SAC Forces West of the 180th meridian.
Career Chief of staff to General Curtis E. LeMay.
Sep 1952-Sep 1956
The assignment which did most to shape his subsequent career was that of chief of staff, Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, in September 1952, a post he held until September 1956. As a principal staff assistant to then SAC commander in chief General Curtis E. LeMay, Montgomery participated in the buildup of SAC into the most powerful military force in the world history.