Marlborough Churchill

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Marlborough Churchill (August 11, 1878 Andover, Massachusetts - July 9, 1942) was a U.S. Army officer and a distant relative of Winston Churchill.

Churchill graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover in 1896, and received an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1900.

He was commissioned in the Field Artillery. In 1917, Colonel Churchill served on the general staff of the American Expeditionary Force in France. On 5 June 1918, Brigadier General Churchill succeeded Ralph Van Deman as head of the Military Intelligence Branch of the War Department, where he remained until 19 August 1920.

Together with Herbert Yardley, he was instrumental in establishing the joint State and War Department's Cipher Bureau, the American Black Chamber.

General Churchill is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.