Hugh L. Scott
- This article is about the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, for the Pennsylvanian senator see Hugh Scott
Hugh Lenox Scott (September 22, 1853 – April 30, 1934) was a post-Civil War West Point graduate who served as superintendent of West Point from 1906 to 1910, and Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1914 to 1917, including the first few months of American involvement in World War I.
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