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General Brooke Promoted to Lieutenant-General

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 18, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 25.

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General Brooke Promoted to Lieutenant-General

On June 4 the Senate passed a bill providing for the promotion of Gen. John R. Brooke to the rank of Lieutenant-General, and authorizing his retirement with that rank. General Brooke is now 64 years old. For a short time immediately following Spain’s evacuation of Cuba, he was military governor of that island.