George C. Marshall
Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Marker Inscription
Soldier and statesman, born Dec. 31, 1880, on this site. Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, 1939-45. General of the Army from Dec. 1944. Secretary of State, 1947-49, and Defense, 1950-51. Author of Marshall Plan for European recovery. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Died Oct. 16, 1959.
Erected by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
The Story
On this Uniontown site in 1880 was born George Catlett Marshall, who would become one of the towering figures of the American century. As Army Chief of Staff he directed the vast mobilization that won the Second World War, then as Secretary of State lent his name to the Marshall Plan that rebuilt a shattered Europe. The soldier who organized victory became the statesman who organized peace, an achievement crowned by the Nobel Peace Prize.
Why it matters
Marshall embodied the rare passage from wartime command to visionary peacemaking, and the recovery program bearing his name reshaped the postwar world and America's role in it.
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