Scheele, Leonard Andrew, 1907-1993

found: Office of the Surgeon General website, Jan. 12, 2004(Leonard Andrew Scheele, b. 1907, d. 1993; surgeon general 1948-1956)

found: OCLC, Jan. 12, 2004(hdg.: Scheele, Leonard Andrew, 1907- ; usage: Leonard A. Scheele)

found: Find A Grave, via WWW, November 18, 2013(Leonard Andrew Scheele; born July 25, 1907 in Fort Wayne, Indiana; died January 8, 1993 in Washington, D.C.; Physician; seventh Surgeon General of the United States; educated at University of Michigan and Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery; he interned at Chicago's Marine Hospital from 1933 to 1934 and accepted a commission as an Assistant Surgeon on July 2, 1934; during World War II he was assigned to the military and in 1943 through 1945 he was detailed to the Medical Department of the Army where he earned the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and specialized in health-related governance in occupied territories; in 1946, he was promoted to Surgeon and in 1947 became Associate Director of NIH; Scheele was appointed as Surgeon General by President Harry S. Truman on April 6, 1948, and remained in that position 4 years later under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, his former commander-in-chief from the war; Scheele twice served as President of the World Health Organization; in August 1956, he resigned from his post as Surgeon General to become President of Warner-Chilcott Laboratories; after his retirement from Warner-Lambert, Scheele returned to the Washington, D.C., where he lived the remainder of his life)