Enoch Herbert Crowder

Enoch Herbert Crowder (born April 11, 1859, Edinburg, Mo., U.S.—died May 7, 1932, Washington, D.C.) was a U.S. Army officer and administrator of the Selective Service Act in World War I. Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (1881), Crowder fought with the cavalry against Indians in the West (1881–85). After serving as judge advocate to U.S. troops in the Philippines in the Spanish-American War, he was sent to Cuba, where he...