Robert E. Wood
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican businessman (1879-1969)
United StatesLived 1879 to 1969 · aged 90Robert Elkington Wood was an American military officer and business executive. S. Army as a brigadier general, Wood had a successful career as a corporate executive, most notably with Sears, Roebuck and Company.
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At West Point in 1900
Major General George W. Goethals and members of his staff, December 7, 1918. Front row, left to right: Gerard Swope, Major General George W. Goethals, Brigadier General Herbert Lord, Brigadier General William H. Rose. Back row, left to right: Edwin W. Fullam, Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, Brigadier General Robert E. Wood, Colonel F. B. Wells.
Wood's grave at Lake Forest CemeteryAwards 1
About this person
Robert Elkington Wood was an American military officer and business executive. After retiring from the U.S. Army as a brigadier general, Wood had a successful career as a corporate executive, most notably with Sears, Roebuck and Company. A Republican, Wood was a leader in the Old Right American Conservatism movement from the 1920s through the 1960s as well as a key financial backer of the America First Committee prior to the United States' entry into World War II.
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