James M. Sellers

Colonel James McBrayer Sellers was a highly decorated Marine in World War I, and served as Commandant, Superintendent and President of Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri from 1920 to 1990.

James McBrayer Sellers was born in Wentworth Military Academys administration building in 1895. His father, Sandford Sellers, served as Superintendent and President of the school from 1880 to 1935. He graduated from the Academy in 1912, and moved on to the University of Chicago, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi and earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. He also was a reserve on Amos Alonzo Staggs football squad, and in 1917 was named as one of twelve marshalls for his senior class.

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