Blanding, Albert Hazen, 1876-1970

found: George A. Smathers Libraries, Special and Area Studies Collections website, viewed September 1, 2015:Library of Florida History. Finding aids (A Guide to the Albert Hazen Blanding Papers) Biographical/Historical Note (Albert Hazen Blanding (1876-1970) was born in Lyons, Iowa, on November 9, 1876 ... His father, after retiring as a military surgeon, moved the family to Florida when Blanding was two years old. In 1895 Blanding graduated from the East Florida Seminary, the military academy that was a precursor to the University of Florida ... He served on the Mexican border during World War I, and was promoted to general on August 5, 1917 prior to his front line service in Europe. He left military service at the end of the war but returned to active duty later in life ... Blanding took a seat upon the Florida Board of Control from 1922 to 1936, later known as the Board of University Regents. While on the Board of Control, Blanding was instrumental in the establishment of the state university system ... Between approximately 1922 through 1936, Blanding also served on the State Plant Board of Florida. He was recalled again to military service for a final time in 1936, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Chief of the National Guard Bureau, where he would serve until his retirement in 1940 ... Blanding died in 1970.) - http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/BlandingAH.htm