Leif J. Sverdrup

Leif Johan Sverdrup was a Norwegianborn American civil engineer and general with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his service in the Southwest Pacific Area during World War II where he was Chief Engineer under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.

Leif Johan Sverdrup was born in Ytre Sula, Norway, onJanuary 1898, the son of Edvard Sverdrup, a high school teacher and Lutheran minister, and his second wife Agnes ne Vollan. The family was a distinguished one in Norway Leif was the greatnephew of Johan Sverdrup, the former Prime Minister of Norway the grandson of Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, the politician the cousin of Otto Sverdrup, the Arctic explorer the halfbrother of the oceanographer and meteorologist Harald Sverdrup and the brother of the mining engineer and businessman Einar Sverdrup and womens rights activist Mimi Sverdrup Lunden.

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