Enoch Crowder



Major General Enoch Herbert Crowder, USA (April 11, 1859 – May 7, 1932) was an American Army lawyer who served as the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1911 to 1923. Crowder is most noted for implementing and administering the United States Selective Service Act of 1917, under which thousands of American men were drafted into military service during World War I.

Quotes

 * Arthur MacArthur was the most flamboyantly egotistical man I had ever seen, until I met his son.
 * As quoted in American Caesar by William Manchester, p. 30