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Lieutenant Colonel John Plimpton Kingman


Hereditary Member, admitted 1950

Lieutenant Colonel John Plimpton Kingman
32nd Vice-President of the New Jersey Society 1978-1981

23rd Assistant Secretary of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati
In office
1975 — 1978
Preceded by John Montgomery Scudder
Succeeded by James Willson Ford
32nd Vice-President of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati
In office
1978 — 1981
Preceded by Craig Colgate
Succeeded by Vincent Claud De Baun

(2) Great grandnephew of propositus Jeremiah Ballard. Assistant Secretary of the Society of the Cincinnati in New Jersey 1968-1971 and 1975-1978, Vice-President 1978-1981. Born in Bridgeport, CT on 10 May 1906 and died in Fairfax, VA on 16 Dec 2001. Served as 2nd Lieutenant to Lt. Colonel in the US Army in World War II in the Army Signal Corps, Plans and Operations, Office of the Chief Signal Officer. Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate 1928. Supervising Electronic Engineer, US Army Foreign Science and Technology Center, Charlottesville, VA. Assistant Director of the Government Division of Gray Manufacturing Company. Part owner of the Audograph Company. Director of Rockbestos Division of Cerros Corporation. Chapter Presidentof the Sons of the American Revolution. Present at the ceremony when Winston Churchill was made a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Married Iola Barbara Minor in 1943. [Sources: PFAH; (C). Pic:PFAH.]

Mr. Kingman was the great-great-grandnephew of Jeremiah Ballard.

Succession

Propositus

Jeremiah Ballard
Original Member
( — )

Predecessors

William Wilmot Ballard
Nephew
(1819 — 1907)
Admitted 1876
John Milton Robinson MD
Great grandnephew
(1870 — 1949)
Admitted 1928
Lieutenant Colonel John Plimpton Kingman
Great-great-grandnephew
(1906 — 2001)
Admitted 1950

Successors

Private
Admitted 1980