Hunter Liggett

Hunter Liggett (b 1857) was a United States Army general during and after the Great War. He was appointed by President Upton Sinclair to replace General Leonard Wood as Chief of the General Staff following Wood's retirement in the early 1920s. In this position, his adjutant was John Abell.

Liggett's time as Chief of Staff was marked by drastic cuts to the military budget by the Socialist-controlled Congress. This forced Liggett to make difficult budgetary decisions. Generally he favored maintaining the military's conventional weapons capacity and discontinuing projects to develop new weapons such as barrels and aircraft carriers.