page_title: Leonard Wood
section_title: Post-Chief of Staff
hierarchical_section_title: Leonard Wood / Career / Post-Chief of Staff
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Leonard Wood (from http://www.wood.army.mil/MGLeonardwood.htm)
context_page_description: Leonard Wood was a United States Army major general, physician, and public official. He served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Military Governor of Cuba, and Governor General of the Philippines. He began his military career as an army doctor on the frontier, where he received the Medal of Honor. During the Spanish–American War, he commanded the Rough Riders, with Theodore Roosevelt as his second-in-command. Wood was bypassed for a major command in World War I, but then became a prominent Republican Party leader and a leading candidate for the 1920 presidential nomination.
  Born in Winchester, New Hampshire, Wood became an army surgeon after earning a Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School. He received the Medal of Honor for his role in the Apache Wars and became the personal physician to the President of the United States. At the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, Wood and Roosevelt organized the Rough Riders, a volunteer cavalry regiment. Wood was promoted to the rank of brigadier general during the war and fought in the Battle of San Juan Hill and other engagements.
context_section_description: In 1914, Wood completed his term as chief of staff and was succeeded by William Wotherspoon.  As commander of the army's Eastern Department, Wood was a strong advocate of the Preparedness Movement, led by Republicans, which alienated him from the isolationist and pacifist President Wilson.  Wood made speeches and wrote articles to advocate preparedness and in 1915 a collection of these works were published as a pro-preparedness book, The  Military Obligation of Citizenship.  He served as a member of Harvard University's board of overseers from 1917 to 1923.
caption: Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood in later years
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