The Moscow Victory Day Parade of 2000 was held on 9 May 2000 to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945.
 The parade marks the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War.
 The parade was commanded by Colonel General Ivan E Puzanov, Commander of the Moscow Military District, and reviewed by the Minister of Defence, Marshal of the Russian Federation Igor Sergeyev.
 The historical part of the parade was commanded by the former Moscow Military District commander General of the Army Vladimir Govorov.
 A speech was made by the newly elected president Vladimir Putin.
Sobir Rakhimov was born on 25 January 1902 in Tashkent to a working class family.
 In early childhood he was poor and spent several years in an orphanage.
 He became a farmworker.
 In 1922, Rakhimov joined the Red Army.
 After graduating from the Baku Joint Military School in 1925, he served in the Turkestan Military District.
 For several years, Rakhimov commanded cavalry units in the fight to suppress the Basmachi movement.
 He was wounded multiple times and awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
 Rakhimov joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1928.
 In 1930, he graduated from refresher courses for commanders (KUVNAS).
 Afterwards, Rakhimov served in multiple military districts.
 He was dismissed from the Red Army in 1938 but reinstated in 1940 and sent to the Western Special Military District.
Valerian Alexandrovich Frolov (Russian: Валериан Александрович Фролов ) (June 7 (O.S. May 26), 1895, (1895 in Petrograd – 1961 in Leningrad) was a Soviet Colonel General (1943).
 Frolov participated in the First World War, the Russian Civil War, and the Soviet-Finnish war as an Army commander, and during the Second World War as the commander of the 14th Army, and from September 1941 to February 1944, the Karelian Front.
 After the war from 1945 to 1956 commanded the troops of Belomorsky Military District and Arkhangelsk Military District.
 From 1956 he was placed in reserve.
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Surovikin served in the Soviet Army from 1987, fighting in the Soviet–Afghan War.
 He was involved in the August Coup as a battalion commander in the 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division.
 Surovikin was investigated for the deaths of three demonstrators during the coup, but the charges were dropped.
 After graduating from the Frunze Military Academy, Surovikin commanded a battalion and was chief of staff and commander of a regiment.
 He graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff in 2002 and took command of the 34th Motor Rifle Division.
 From 2004 to 2005 he led the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division in Chechnya.
 Surovikin was chief of staff and then commander of the 20th Guards Army.
 In 2008, he became head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff.
 In January 2010, he became chief of staff of the Volga–Urals Military District, which soon became part of the Central Military District.
 Surovikin led the Ministry of Defense working group in charge of the creation of the Military Police in 2012.
 He became the chief of staff of the Eastern Military District and was appointed commander of the district in October 2013.
The son of an Imperial Russian Army officer, Kuibyshev joined the army and fought in World War I.
 Kuibyshev joined the Red Army in 1918 and became commander of the 3rd and 9th Rifle Divisions on the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War.
 During the 1920s, Kuibyshev commanded a corps, courses for Red Army commanders, the group of Soviet advisors in China, and the Main Directorate of the Red Army, and the Siberian Military District.
 He became secretary for Rabkrin, the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, and a member of the Party Control Commission during the 1930s.
 Kuibyshev became commander of the Transcaucasian Military District in 1937.
 During the Great Purge, he was arrested in February 1938 and executed in August.
 Kuibyshev was posthumously pardoned in 1956.
Major-General James Spens, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (30 March 1853 – 19 August 1934) was an English cricketer and officer in the British Army.
 Spens began playing cricket whilst at school, and after joining the Army played for Hampshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club in the 1880s.
 He briefly returned to first-class cricket in 1897-98, again for Hampshire.
 During the Second Boer War, he led an infantry battalion and a mobile column, then later commanded a military district in India and a Territorial division in the United Kingdom.
 He retired shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, when he returned to service, commanding the 12th (Eastern) Division, then a training depot and a military district in Egypt.
The 16th Army Headquarters was formed in July 1940 in the Transbaikal Military District to command Soviet forces deployed in the Dauriya area.
 On 25 May 1941, four weeks before the commencement of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, the army received orders to deploy (with six Trans-Baikalian divisions) to the Ukraine to be subordinated to the Kiev Special Military District.
 The first 16th Army units to arrive (109th Motorized Division of the 5th Mechanized Corps) in Berdichev on 18 June 1941.
 The Army was commanded by Lieutenant-General М.
 F. Lukin, and on 22 June the Army Headquarters was located in Orel.
The Central Military District (Russian: Центральный военный округ) is one of Russia's Military Districts.
 The district was formed in Presidential Decree №1144 signed on September 20, 2010.
 The district includes the territories of the former Siberian Military District.
 Until 2010, Colonel General Vladimir Chirkin was the district commander with Lieutenant General Sergei Surovikin acting as the district chief of staff.
 From the next year onward the district was headed by now General of the Army Valery Gerasimov and later by Major General Aleksandr Dvornikov.
 Colonel General Nikolai Bordanovskiy commanded the district until 2014, when Colonel General Vladimir Zarudnitsky took command.
Daniel Edgar Sickles (October 20, 1819May 3, 1914) was an American politician, soldier, and diplomat.
The Second Military District of the U.S. Army was a temporary administrative unit of the U.S. War Department that existed in the American South.
 The district was stipulated by the Reconstruction Acts during the Reconstruction period following the American Civil War.
 It included the territories of North and South Carolina, and acted as the de facto military government of those states while a new civilian government was being re-established.
 Originally commanded by Major General Daniel Sickles, after his removal by President Andrew Johnson on August 26, 1867, Brigadier General Edward Canby took over command until both states were readmitted in July 1868.

Question: Which American politician, soldier, and diplomat born in 1819 commanded the Second Military District of the U.S. Army?
Answer: Daniel Sickles