Clarence L. Tinker

Major General Clarence Leonard Tinker was a career United States Army officer, the highest ranking NativeAmerican officer and the first to reach that rank. During World War II, he had been assigned as Commander of the Seventh Air Force in Hawaii to reorganize the air defenses.

Clarence Tinker was born on November 21, 1887 near Pawhuska, Oklahoma in the Osage Nation, the eldest son of George Edward Tinker and Sarah A. Tinker. He was raised as an Osage and learned the language and culture from his parents and extended family. His maternal grandmother was halfOsage both her parents were mixedrace Osage. They had Osage mothers and fathers who were Acadian French traders from Louisiana.

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