Richard Warren Pershing

Richard Warren Pershing

- grandson of John Joseph Pershing "JJ Black Jack Pershing", the Commander in Chief of all American forces in Europe during WWI. - Brother John Warren Pershing III served in the Special Forces and in 1967 left active duty to become a reservist. - Was a member of the Skull and Bones at Yale and was in the same Bonesclass as John Forbes Kerry(1966). - Was great-grandson of Senator Francis E. Warren(Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Civil War) - Was a Phillips Exeter Alumni - A member of the Editorial Staff for Vogue magazine, he was engaged to Shirley Hildreth Gay before he died.