Jefferson Randolph Kean

Jefferson Randolph Kean, M.D. (June 27, 1860 – September 4, 1950) was an American military surgeon who served with the U.S. Army.

Early years Jefferson R. Kean was born in 1860 in Lynchburg, Virginia, to Robert Garlick Hill Kean and Jane Nicholas Randolph Kean. He was the great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson. Kean obtained his M.D. from the University of Virginia in 1883,

Military career Kean was commissioned into the U.S. Army in 1884 as an assistant surgeon. until June 1918, when he was promoted to brigadier general and made Deputy Chief Surgeon of the American Expeditionary Force until the end of the war. and was a member of the U.S. Commission to erect the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 1938.

He was awarded the Gorgas Medal by the Association of Military Surgeons in 1942.

Personal life Kean married Louise Hurlbut Young in 1894. Their marriage produced two children, Martha Jefferson and Robert Hill. Louise died in 1915. Kean remarried in 1919 to Cornelia Knox.

Death Kean died on September 4, 1950, aged 90, in Washington D.C. He is buried in Monticello, VA.