Bruce M. Lawlor
Major General Bruce M. Lawlor is a retired United States Army officer. He is prominent as the first commander of Joint Task ForceCivil Support. In addition, he was one of five White House staff members who wrote the plan to create the Department of Homeland Security, and he was the first DHS Chief of Staff.
Bruce Michael Lawlor was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont on January 24, 1948, and graduated from Vermont Academy in 1966. He briefly attended the United States Military Academy before transferring to George Washington University, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in political science in 1970.
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