General Petraeus
“The Leadership of General David H.Petraeus”
Wilma Denise Dowdell, Ivy L. Dawson, Katie Powell, William Waterworth, Chris D. Dozier
Webster University
Introduction to Human Resources Development 5000
David Howell Petraeus was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York on November 7,
1952 to Mariam (Howell), an American Librarian and Sixtus Petraeus, a Sea Captain emigrated to the United States from Franker, Netherlands, during the initial phase of World
War II. Sixtus settled in Cornwall-on-Hudson, where David Petraeus grew up. Residents called him “Peaches” in reference to his often-mispronounced name and the nickname stuck with him as a cadet. From a very young age, Petraeus showed a desire to serve in the military, so after he graduated from Cornwell High School in 1970, General Petraeus became a cadet at the West Point Military Academy in West Point where he served with distinction. As a cadet at West Point, he was on the intercollegiate soccer and ski teams; a cadet captain on the brigade staff; and a “distinguished cadet” academically. He rose to the rank of “Cadet Captain” and graduated from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point in 1974 in the top percent of his class with a
B. S. degree. Just two months after graduation, Petraeus married Dickinson College (summa cum laude) graduate , Holly Knowlton, daughter of then West Point Superintendent General
William A. Knowlton. Petraeus and his wife, Holly has a daughter, Anne and a son,
Stephen, whom Petraeus administered the oath of office at his son’s commissioning into the
Army after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. General Petraeus earned the General George C. Marshall award as the top graduate of the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College in 1983 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Subsequently, he earned an M.P.A. in 1985 and a PH. D degree in International Relations in 1987 from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
Wilma Denise Dowdell, Ivy L. Dawson, Katie Powell, William Waterworth, Chris D. Dozier
Webster University
Introduction to Human Resources Development 5000
David Howell Petraeus was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York on November 7,
1952 to Mariam (Howell), an American Librarian and Sixtus Petraeus, a Sea Captain emigrated to the United States from Franker, Netherlands, during the initial phase of World
War II. Sixtus settled in Cornwall-on-Hudson, where David Petraeus grew up. Residents called him “Peaches” in reference to his often-mispronounced name and the nickname stuck with him as a cadet. From a very young age, Petraeus showed a desire to serve in the military, so after he graduated from Cornwell High School in 1970, General Petraeus became a cadet at the West Point Military Academy in West Point where he served with distinction. As a cadet at West Point, he was on the intercollegiate soccer and ski teams; a cadet captain on the brigade staff; and a “distinguished cadet” academically. He rose to the rank of “Cadet Captain” and graduated from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point in 1974 in the top percent of his class with a
B. S. degree. Just two months after graduation, Petraeus married Dickinson College (summa cum laude) graduate , Holly Knowlton, daughter of then West Point Superintendent General
William A. Knowlton. Petraeus and his wife, Holly has a daughter, Anne and a son,
Stephen, whom Petraeus administered the oath of office at his son’s commissioning into the
Army after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. General Petraeus earned the General George C. Marshall award as the top graduate of the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College in 1983 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Subsequently, he earned an M.P.A. in 1985 and a PH. D degree in International Relations in 1987 from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
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