About St. Louis District
Established in 1837, the St. Louis District, encompasses 28,000 square miles of land. We are an engineering and water resource agency dedicated to maintaining a proper and healthy balance of the varying uses of the heartland's waterways.
The St. Louis District also operates and maintains five lakes and their associated recreational areas. These lakes, which serve a variety of purposes ranging from flood protection and recreation to potable water supply and hydroelectricity, average over 15 million visitors a year.
... In 1978, Hugh G. Robinson, a 1954 graduate of West Point, was promoted to brigadier general and became the Corps of Engineers' first African American general officer ...
After service in Korea, a master's degree in civil engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and several Army staff positions in the United States and France, he was appointed in 1965 as military aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson: Find out more about Hugh Robinson
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